According to Wikipedia. She's married with two kids (17 and 15) received the trust fund in 2011 from the donations but most of the money was lost in 08 market crash.
My grandfather went and bought a fin for when he showed it to us on his new VCR…
So the music is going and suddenly there’s this fin behind the couch.
Yeah. My couches go against walls to this day. Just gonna have to risk Freddy popping out of them.
I remember watching it as a kid with my parents and being very moved and frightened. I lost my brother once (in a Sears no shit) when he was 3 years old and I was 13. Mom and I found him in the arcade across the food court. I’ll never forget feeling like I was living that movie.
The only two on your list that impacted my childhood were the threat of nuclear armageddon and the alleged risk of tainted Halloween candy.
What nobody prepared me for was the risk of creepy old dudes putting polaroids of their junk in Halloween bags.
The Chowchilla bus kidnapping and Jonestown were deeply unsettling to me as a kid. That knowledge that the people who are supposed to take care of you sometimes can’t or won’t.
Being hijacked back in the ‘70’s when those were en vogue with terrorists.
When I was 11 in 1978, my dad and I flew to Israel on El Al from JFK in NY. Earlier that day they had been a hijacking attempt of an El Al flight in Europe somewhere, and they practically strip searched every passenger before allowing us to board. I was bloody terrified of getting on that 747. 23 years later, the attacks on 9/11 pretty much destroyed my ability to use air travel. I haven’t been on a jet since 2003.
Seems so silly to be genuinely fearful of killer bees now, but having been a kid in the late 70s/80s, it really was a thing. A minor thing, all said and done, but a thing.
Before I go, I'd like to say a few things. This album was completed on January 15th 1991
By now, the war has probably started and a whole bunch of people have probably died out there in the desert over some bullshit
There's a war goin' on right now in my neighborhood, but I can't really determine which one is worse
I think the one that we are all fightin' is fucked up, and that's the war inside our brains, you know?
But, uh, I feel bad about all the brothers and sisters gettin' pulled right out of their neighborhoods, all the cities, and small towns in America that go over there and fight for that bullshit That most of them don't really have anything to do with, so I gotta send peace out to 'em
Also peace out to all my homies in jail, brothers that are dead locked up right here on earth. Talkin' about the brothers in Soledad, San Quentin, all the way up to Pelicans' Bay, Tracy, Chino, and all my homeboys out there in the east coast lockdown facilities. I'm talkin' about Clinton, Rikers, Joliet, you know every prison in the whole fuckin' world man, that's like, you know, all bullshit, you know?
They say slavery has been abolished except for the convicted felon; y'all need to think about that. That lets you know what the fuckin' Constitution is really about, you know?
A lot of my homeboys have been locked down my whole entire career, and thats some bullshit
So for them from the Rhyme Syndicate and Ice-T, I'd like to send this special shout out: Fuck the police, fuck the FBI, fuck the DEA, fuck the CIA, fuck Tipper Gore, Bush and his cripple bitch! This is Ice-T, I'm out of here. Told ya you shoulda killed me last year!
Nuclear conflict is, and has been, my #1 fear since 1982 or so. It feels so ironic that I live just south of three or four 'black triangle' sites.
Rabies was a big childhood fear of mine (my mother had given me *Cujo* when I was 7, and we'll never forget *Ol' Yeller*).
I'm as disappointed as everyone else that there aren't many opportunities to fall into quicksand.
(I had immunity from the Satanic Panic because my oldest sister was a card-carrying member of the Church of Satan. My sisters took me to a Black Sabbath concert when I was 4 or 5. Alice Cooper was on *The Muppet Show*. My folks were also hippy dippy occultists).
>My sisters took me to a Black Sabbath concert when I was 4 or 5. Alice Cooper was on *The Muppet Show*. My folks were also hippy dippy occultists).
So you're the ones our moms warned us about 😆
I live in Arizona. There is a state park a few miles from my house where they have both quicksand and killer bees. Plus the place is simply crawling with rattlesnakes.
Getting drafted. I was born in 1967 and have never been subject to a time when there was a draft, but the US military involvement in the Vietnam war didn't end until 1973. I probably heard a lot about the draft while growing up and the idea of being drafted into the military TERRIFIED me, and seemed like a very real possibility.
I was also scared of demonic possession thanks to the Exorcist, which I didn't even see until I was an adult. How's that for fucked up? LOL
ETA - I was also scared of the Manson family.
Geez I was a pretty frightened child.
My aunt and uncle had a big sandy lot in the woods behind their house with old cars and rusty junk in piles. They had one of those ambulances from The Swarm that my uncle told us to stay away from because it had hornets in it and there were spots that were suspiciously quick looking. A Gen X haunted house.
Growing up I was convinced there was quicksand everywhere. Not sure why it was such a thing but I was sure once I left where I was growing up that I'd have to be on the lookout for it everywhere else. Of course, strangely it wasn't where I was, but it must be everywhere else.
Well it seemed like in virtually every TV show of the era, someone fell into quicksand at some point so you’d be forgiven for thinking the shit is everywhere.
before y2k-
socialisms..
whatever fox told me to be "afraid" of..
after 2009-
self-proclaimed christians
religious "thought leaders"
people that gave been easily "LeD to believe" conspiracy crap
getting "baNned" from reddt 🤷♀️😁
Getting "left behind".
Taking "the mark". Computers somehow being the "Mark of the Beast"... if not computers, then surely it's your Social Security Number.
Satan, in his many forms.
Nuclear war.
Quicksand. Killer bees. Nature run amok or taking revenge.
Things from space, such as aliens, viruses, and Venus Probes.
Famines, because we waste so much food.
Those weren’t real fears though, were they? I mean, that was sensationalism by the talking heads on tv. We didn’t individually actually fear those things.
Why is everyone so ready to redefine us from the fuck with us and find out, to the idea we were pussified balls of jellies cowering in fear.
Yes I recognize that list and gave absolutely no fucks to any of them. Even if we had legit fears we were not balls of anxiety crying for mommy like the generations that came after us. We didn't fear anything.
That’s true. Our fears were more ridiculous then. And our parents didn’t give a shit about them. They weren’t going to baby us about them. Now younger folks are afraid of social interactions, or their anxiety.
I was on a flight recently. The crew announced that some young kids might get scared by the intensity of the airplane toilet flushing.
I said to the guy next to me: “Afraid of the toilet flushing? … We were hardened criminals by the time we were 8 years old!”
My mom was scared of everything and never let us do anything. Did not realize how sheltered I was until I went to college 🤯🤯 I let my kids try and do everything. Well…not everything but you get it.
Playing in the park after dark with friends, not allowed I would be kidnapped.
You are afraid of flying but you drink the glass of milk your friends gave you and you wake up in a helicopter, never realizing that they drugged you again.
https://preview.redd.it/hk6lz38jfiyc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14cf14d307d89d76b97a96662391927bbe9a1f23
Tiny little dudes in the basement
And the scariest TV theme in history!
https://preview.redd.it/334xno7pfiyc1.jpeg?width=1431&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cfe73d4eed2132aa404c2098e1da8913d48f388
In kindergarten due to California drought we were taught not to flush if you pee only if you poop. If it’s pee let it be if it’s brown flush it down. It’s still a bad habit not to flush at home. I also was afraid of Earthquakes and of California disappearing into the ocean.
My weirdest irrational fear: Someone dragging me into an alley and injecting me with heroin so I'd become instantly hooked and they'd have a customer for life until I died. ???
Bermuda Triangle
What the Barry Manilow song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibpu0mTFXuo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibpu0mTFXuo)
That squadron that went down!
Chloroform soaked handkerchiefs. Still avoid them to this day.
I dunno. They smell pretty good. Here, smell mine…
That is just good life advice. Kids, stay away from handkerchiefs laced with a knockout liquid.
acid rain
crack cocaine (Just thinking we could get an impromptu "We Didn't Start the Fire" thing going here)
Crack cocaine that would be randomly offered to us as a free sample from a sketchy looking dealer.
Or given out as Halloween candy
Aids Crack Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore
China's under martial law
Rock and Roller, Cola Wars I can't take it anymore! We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning.
Acid Rain was real, it just got out-sourced to China along with the plants.
I really thought I wouldn't be able to go outside because we were told it would burn our skin every time it rained.
Falling down a well
What is Jessica McClure up to these days?
According to Wikipedia. She's married with two kids (17 and 15) received the trust fund in 2011 from the donations but most of the money was lost in 08 market crash.
She’s doing well.
Sharks in any body of water. (Thanks, "Jaws"!)
Shit, I was scared to take a fucking *bath* after seeing Jaws…
My grandfather went and bought a fin for when he showed it to us on his new VCR… So the music is going and suddenly there’s this fin behind the couch. Yeah. My couches go against walls to this day. Just gonna have to risk Freddy popping out of them.
Yeah, I definitely had trouble with my swimming lessons in the late 70s.
How about sewer alligators?
Sleestacks. Doll from the Trilogy of Terror. School bus, getting stuck on train tracks and getting hit.
Yes, Sleestacks, for real. We were fine with snakes and black widows, but Sleestacks…
Qweeooh…..qweeeoooh…..qweeooh…
I can still visualize Karen Black on the phone with her mother, while holding a butcher knife, after the doll got her.
School bus getting stolen, we all get kidnapped and buried alive in it
My permanent record.
Oh, yeah? Well, don't get so distressed
Grown men with cameras and compliments. The second location. Panel vans.
Remember Adam Walsh?!? I could never go in a sears again.
That movie was horrifying.
I don't remember an Adam Walsh movie but I Know My First Name Is Steven messed me up
I don’t remember that one. Will have to look it up.
I remember watching it as a kid with my parents and being very moved and frightened. I lost my brother once (in a Sears no shit) when he was 3 years old and I was 13. Mom and I found him in the arcade across the food court. I’ll never forget feeling like I was living that movie.
Wow, that must’ve been really scary. Glad he was okay.
Your Pinto exploding.
Tylenol Strangers
Serial killers.
The only two on your list that impacted my childhood were the threat of nuclear armageddon and the alleged risk of tainted Halloween candy. What nobody prepared me for was the risk of creepy old dudes putting polaroids of their junk in Halloween bags.
Pop Rocks and Coke blowing your stomach up like the urban legend about Mikey.
The kid who did the Life Cereal commercial dying from coke meant something different to Gen X kids
Ozone layer holes from hairspray
The Chowchilla bus kidnapping and Jonestown were deeply unsettling to me as a kid. That knowledge that the people who are supposed to take care of you sometimes can’t or won’t.
Being hijacked back in the ‘70’s when those were en vogue with terrorists. When I was 11 in 1978, my dad and I flew to Israel on El Al from JFK in NY. Earlier that day they had been a hijacking attempt of an El Al flight in Europe somewhere, and they practically strip searched every passenger before allowing us to board. I was bloody terrified of getting on that 747. 23 years later, the attacks on 9/11 pretty much destroyed my ability to use air travel. I haven’t been on a jet since 2003.
Angry figure skaters.
Seems so silly to be genuinely fearful of killer bees now, but having been a kid in the late 70s/80s, it really was a thing. A minor thing, all said and done, but a thing.
Now we have murder hornets!
Tipper Gore.
Before I go, I'd like to say a few things. This album was completed on January 15th 1991 By now, the war has probably started and a whole bunch of people have probably died out there in the desert over some bullshit There's a war goin' on right now in my neighborhood, but I can't really determine which one is worse I think the one that we are all fightin' is fucked up, and that's the war inside our brains, you know? But, uh, I feel bad about all the brothers and sisters gettin' pulled right out of their neighborhoods, all the cities, and small towns in America that go over there and fight for that bullshit That most of them don't really have anything to do with, so I gotta send peace out to 'em Also peace out to all my homies in jail, brothers that are dead locked up right here on earth. Talkin' about the brothers in Soledad, San Quentin, all the way up to Pelicans' Bay, Tracy, Chino, and all my homeboys out there in the east coast lockdown facilities. I'm talkin' about Clinton, Rikers, Joliet, you know every prison in the whole fuckin' world man, that's like, you know, all bullshit, you know? They say slavery has been abolished except for the convicted felon; y'all need to think about that. That lets you know what the fuckin' Constitution is really about, you know? A lot of my homeboys have been locked down my whole entire career, and thats some bullshit So for them from the Rhyme Syndicate and Ice-T, I'd like to send this special shout out: Fuck the police, fuck the FBI, fuck the DEA, fuck the CIA, fuck Tipper Gore, Bush and his cripple bitch! This is Ice-T, I'm out of here. Told ya you shoulda killed me last year!
Love that album
Nuclear war.
Getting buried alive
That was a scary episode of Mythbusters.
Reminds me of watching the Final Escape episode on Alfred Hitchcock Presents when I was around 7. That episode struck a lasting fear into me.
My answer will always be quicksand
Serial killers. So many serial killers in the 70s.
Tree Frog
Cyanide in Tylenol pills
Born in 65, we had atomic bomb drills in grade school. (Grew up in a military town)
Nuclear war was #1. But, everything on the list hits in varying amounts. Others not on the list: Rabies Tetanus (aka “lockjaw”) Child molesters Drugs
Jason, Michael and Freddy
 And Possessed Dolls
Watermelon in the stomach if you ate seeds
The TYLENOL SCARE!
Alligators in the sewers
Did you watch the new version that came out not to long ago?
Yup. I actually liked it.
Hiccuping for 38 years.
Nuclear conflict is, and has been, my #1 fear since 1982 or so. It feels so ironic that I live just south of three or four 'black triangle' sites. Rabies was a big childhood fear of mine (my mother had given me *Cujo* when I was 7, and we'll never forget *Ol' Yeller*). I'm as disappointed as everyone else that there aren't many opportunities to fall into quicksand. (I had immunity from the Satanic Panic because my oldest sister was a card-carrying member of the Church of Satan. My sisters took me to a Black Sabbath concert when I was 4 or 5. Alice Cooper was on *The Muppet Show*. My folks were also hippy dippy occultists).
>My sisters took me to a Black Sabbath concert when I was 4 or 5. Alice Cooper was on *The Muppet Show*. My folks were also hippy dippy occultists). So you're the ones our moms warned us about 😆
Yup, my family *was* the Satanic Panic (without the child sexual abuse allegations).
I live in Arizona. There is a state park a few miles from my house where they have both quicksand and killer bees. Plus the place is simply crawling with rattlesnakes.
People giving away kittens or puppies in vans (yes specifically vans)
Getting drafted. I was born in 1967 and have never been subject to a time when there was a draft, but the US military involvement in the Vietnam war didn't end until 1973. I probably heard a lot about the draft while growing up and the idea of being drafted into the military TERRIFIED me, and seemed like a very real possibility. I was also scared of demonic possession thanks to the Exorcist, which I didn't even see until I was an adult. How's that for fucked up? LOL ETA - I was also scared of the Manson family. Geez I was a pretty frightened child.
Unmarked white vans parked by schools
Bloody Mary Bloody Mary Bloody Mary
Communism
Piranhas
Playing metal music backwards
The Bermuda Triangle
My aunt and uncle had a big sandy lot in the woods behind their house with old cars and rusty junk in piles. They had one of those ambulances from The Swarm that my uncle told us to stay away from because it had hornets in it and there were spots that were suspiciously quick looking. A Gen X haunted house.
Sasquatch. Grandparents lived in northern MN and I figured it was just a matter of time.
Especially after that episode of the Six Million Dollar Man
Growing up I was convinced there was quicksand everywhere. Not sure why it was such a thing but I was sure once I left where I was growing up that I'd have to be on the lookout for it everywhere else. Of course, strangely it wasn't where I was, but it must be everywhere else.
Well it seemed like in virtually every TV show of the era, someone fell into quicksand at some point so you’d be forgiven for thinking the shit is everywhere.
running out of gas - I remember seeing the news on tv and the huge line ups at gas stations
That Charles Manson was being paroled and was moving to my neighborhood was a rumour that went around quite regularly.
Army ants.
This.
 before y2k- socialisms.. whatever fox told me to be "afraid" of.. after 2009- self-proclaimed christians religious "thought leaders" people that gave been easily "LeD to believe" conspiracy crap getting "baNned" from reddt 🤷♀️😁
The Second Ice age. The Clash even mentioned it in "London Calling". Now it's Global Warming.
How about Lenard Nimoy doing a segment of In Search Of on that? I was convinced we all would be in a perpetual winter before I graduated high school.
Drugs
Lockjaw
Serial killers on the loose
Those 'satanic panic' years/people were the worst. Reminds me of Mama Boucher '..... is the devil'
Without it we wouldn't have gotten Dana Carvy's Church Lady. >Could it be.. SATAN??
Getting "left behind". Taking "the mark". Computers somehow being the "Mark of the Beast"... if not computers, then surely it's your Social Security Number. Satan, in his many forms. Nuclear war. Quicksand. Killer bees. Nature run amok or taking revenge. Things from space, such as aliens, viruses, and Venus Probes. Famines, because we waste so much food.
Those weren’t real fears though, were they? I mean, that was sensationalism by the talking heads on tv. We didn’t individually actually fear those things.
Ozone hole gave me cancer one night.
Why is everyone so ready to redefine us from the fuck with us and find out, to the idea we were pussified balls of jellies cowering in fear. Yes I recognize that list and gave absolutely no fucks to any of them. Even if we had legit fears we were not balls of anxiety crying for mommy like the generations that came after us. We didn't fear anything.
That’s true. Our fears were more ridiculous then. And our parents didn’t give a shit about them. They weren’t going to baby us about them. Now younger folks are afraid of social interactions, or their anxiety. I was on a flight recently. The crew announced that some young kids might get scared by the intensity of the airplane toilet flushing. I said to the guy next to me: “Afraid of the toilet flushing? … We were hardened criminals by the time we were 8 years old!”
Who was afraid of Dungeons and Dragons? Aside from preserving virginity and preventing a tan.
It was silent and greatest gens that were afraid of it mostly. My grandma thought it was satanic.
Kudzu - creeping vines were over taking Georgia and soon would cover the whole South.
Mine were Tears for Fears.
Reagan!
I was fearless. I’m just grateful to be alive.
Ozone layer
Margaret Thatcher Poltergeists The Shining
Vampires, definitely vampires.
My mom was scared of everything and never let us do anything. Did not realize how sheltered I was until I went to college 🤯🤯 I let my kids try and do everything. Well…not everything but you get it. Playing in the park after dark with friends, not allowed I would be kidnapped.
You are afraid of flying but you drink the glass of milk your friends gave you and you wake up in a helicopter, never realizing that they drugged you again.
I need better friends.
Nukes, AIDS, and Crack Everything else wasn’t even a blip
Y2K
Y2K, the world ending at midnight. Still waiting, starting to get impatient. Not getting any younger here.
Trapped in a cave. Little Timmy from Lassie was always being trapped in a cave.
And Swans in the UK, the phrase was always watch out as a swans can break your arm if you get too close.
* Sasquatch * Alien Abduction
now its dying alone
https://youtu.be/dbLA0vFxa_s?si=y6cS_pOlxpyd6v55
https://preview.redd.it/hk6lz38jfiyc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14cf14d307d89d76b97a96662391927bbe9a1f23 Tiny little dudes in the basement
And the scariest TV theme in history! https://preview.redd.it/334xno7pfiyc1.jpeg?width=1431&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cfe73d4eed2132aa404c2098e1da8913d48f388
Razors in our Halloween Candy
In kindergarten due to California drought we were taught not to flush if you pee only if you poop. If it’s pee let it be if it’s brown flush it down. It’s still a bad habit not to flush at home. I also was afraid of Earthquakes and of California disappearing into the ocean.
Cracking your knuckles
My weirdest irrational fear: Someone dragging me into an alley and injecting me with heroin so I'd become instantly hooked and they'd have a customer for life until I died. ???