Too scary


2010 04 17    |    etc    no date    2024 +    2025    entries    home

Was there something you were afraid of as a child that just seems silly to you now?

Totally, and I blame it all on Disney.

When I was a wee, small thing I saw the movie Blackbeard's Ghost. There's a scene where a man is looking into a mirror, and the ghost pops into the frame - I can't remember whether it's into the mirror image, or behind the man.

That image scared the crap out of me. So much so that for years I wouldn't walk up to my bed in a dark room. I'd get about a foot away and jump onto my bed from a distance.

Seems so bizarre because I'm scared of very little now - certainly not my own shadow, nor that of any ghost who may be hanging about.


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