An abbreviated list of things that frightened me as a child:
- being nuked by the Soviets (‘cause you know that Somerset County, Maryland would have been the first to go if WWIII started)
- the video for the Police’s “Wrapped Around Your Finger”
- lightning and tornadoes
- “Green Eyed Lady” by Sugarloaf
- Halloween
- any dark rooms in our house
- being abducted in a mall
- Lou Ferrigno (both as the Incredible Hulk and as Bruce Banner)
- Satanic cults that would abduct children and ritually sacrifice them (thanks to the fundamentalist Christian school I went to as a kid for scaring me with things like that)