Childhood Nightmare Fuel #4 - Full Version

Great video. As a lifelong fan of horror, now in my forties, my first childhood experiences with horror were an episode of Rugrats (not the same one as yours; it involved Tommy having bad dreams in which his dad is revealed to be an imposter who says "I'M NOT STU" in a loud creepy voice), and an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine in which one of the trains gets bricked inside a pitch black tunnel and comes out noticeably traumatised by the experience.

Man I'm a patron so i get to see this either way but damn putting it up for free instead of doing the cash-grabby thing of locking it behind the paywall is a real awesome move of ya. Ok ok so well deserved glazing aside, I do also have some childhood horror media of my own. You see I was a big Thomas the Tank Engine kid, but I only really liked the really old episodes where they used those model trains and real sets and stuff (the general vibe of early Thomas was pretty uncanny in general at times). But I still remember one Halloween episode that focused on the litte railway up in the mountains. So the general plot was that while the little tank engines were helping to clean up debris from a storm, the troublesome trucks--being the troublesome little friggers that they are--decide to promptly uncouple themselves from the tank engines and tumble off of a bridge into a mudflow. Workers try all they can to find the trucks, but they are nowhere to be found. That night another much older tank engine tells the others about a little white engine who fell off of the same brigde at midnight on Halloween. And if you are on the bridge at midnight, sometimes you will see a ghostly train shaped form of light trying to reach the other side, but tumbling into the abyss in the exact spot as where he fell the first time. That episode really stuck with me for some reason and I was so freaked out by it as a child that I couldn't sleep with the lights off for a while after that. You know what imma rewatch it just now and see if it still holds up. I'll spare you the Google search: https://consent.youtube.com/m?continue=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DglULBBXM-AE%26cbrd%3D1&gl=NL&m=1&pc=yt&cm=2&hl=en&src=1 (ok so I watched it and it still had vibes, but creepy or scary? Not particularly. Oh well, ig just a fun trip down memory lane. Either way not as scary and traumatic as the other guy's comment lmao)

Great video man, I enjoyed it. It’s so strange what sticks with us as kids. When I was I kid we didn’t get cable until I was 14. My parents were extremely strict and basically tried to raise me in a “leave it to beaver” type 1950s sheltered environment in the 1990s. I was only allowed to watch a little bit of TV and the stuff they allowed me to watch was always so old or weird. The one that truly traumatized me was a movie called “the littlest angel” and it got me bad enough that the concept that bothered me back then still gets to me. I was raised in the south and half my family was Christian and half was atheist and when I would go to church all of my friends and teachers would tell me my dad and grandpa would burn in hell for eternity if they wouldn’t accept Christ. I believed it and tried as hard as I could to convert them but they wouldn’t budge. I was a a believer but I couldn’t accept it fully because I couldn’t accept an eternity in heaven with the knowledge that half my loved ones were down below being tortured forever and ever and it drove me crazy. In “the littlest angel” the beginning scene is a kid playing by himself when he accidentally falls off of a cliff and dies but then he doesn’t know that he’s dead and he walks home a ghost. Because he’s a ghost his parents can’t see him and he’s walking around calling out to them and they can’t hear him and eventually they find his body. At that point he goes to heaven but I remember him up there depressed because his family wasn’t with him. He was basically homesick in heaven and couldn’t be happy without his parents. Lol at that point I couldn’t get any further, I had to turn the movie off and I freaked out. Imagine it, making it to heaven and you’re STILL depressed and you can never be happy even in “paradise” with the knowledge you’re loved ones aren’t with you, and in my own case apparently burning in hell, suffering. I’m not religious anymore but the trauma runs deep. Lol even though it’s not really a joke. The concept hit me so heavily and personally that to this day I remember the whole scene, the movie and my response, clear as day and it STILL gets to me. Always, that’s my childhood nightmare fuel to add. Thanks for the movie!