Please keep the thread reasonably lighthearted.No dark and genuinely traumatic stuff.
Anyway, I used to be terrified of X-Files. My parents watched it all the time in the 90s but even just hearing the X-Files theme would send me cowering behind the couch/bed. I ended up rewatching the series in my late teens and liked it, but from ages 5-10 aliens scared the hell out of me.
Christian eschatology also terrified me. I wasn't raised in a "fire and brimstone" Southern Baptist type family but the Bible was still taken seriously and Revelations was just awful. Kids should not be subjected to that type of stuff.
And lastly, supermarket magazines. I thought Weekly World News was actual news and every time I'd wait in line with my mom at the checkout I'd see crap about Batboy, Roswell aliens, Bigfoot, and stuff like this:
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