re: Random Media from Childhood that Sparked Nightmares

No one put the melty face from Raiders?

Mac and Me - McDonalds Dance Scene

Anything involving Mac and Me sends me into some sort of spiraling depression. I might have been butt-fingered by an uncle in that movie or something.

Sinkholes.

Nightmare fuel:
Unsolved Mysteries - Opening Theme

I had seen horror and exploitation films by the time I was 4, also lived in a shitty violent east new orleans neighborhood as a kid for a while.

..but the one thing that always got to me cause it was real, was the unsolved mysteries intro. The music plus reenactments of bodies being dragged down stairs or put in trunks..etc..horrible events that apparently people had gotten away with doing.

quote:

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Unsolved Mysteries scared the shite out of me.

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What happened to that guys kid is the most terrifying thing that could happen.

This pic was in my fourth grade Alabama history book. Literally nightmares.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Mims_massacre

as a kid, this nightmare scene from fantasy island kept me wide awake for days.

fantasy island 1978

When the music for the Wicked Witch came on—first heard when Mrs. Gulch was riding her bike—I’d have to sit on my mom’s lap. I also still vividly remember some Garbage Pail Kids cards, like the guy shaving some of his face off, maybe “Shavin’ Raymond.”
Finally, we weren’t allowed to see Nightmare on Elm Street but our video rental place and a life sized cardboard Freddy—that prompted a lot of night anxiety.

Lady Elaine Fairchilde who lived in the neighborhood of make believe. (Mr. Rogers)