Was there an book, a movie or an episode of a television show that truly traumatized you as a child?

I stumbled across this site the other day, KIndertrauma.com, and it got me thinking.

Things were maybe little tamer when I as growing up; I know that the wicked witch’s flying monkeys terrified me when they showed The Wizard of Oz on television.

But, the only show that ever truly traumatized me was an episode of the original Outer Limits series, called Corpus Earthling, about hideous, jelly-like throbbing, telepathic, alien rocks that would attach themselves, if I remember, to your brain stem, at the back of your neck or something, and literally suck the life out of you.

Was there anything you watched that really traumatized you? It could have been a very personal trauma. Check out the site, one guy was traumatized by an episode of Scooby Doo he saw as a kid.

I’m not really sure how I was able to see the episode. I wasn’t allowed to watch the show, and for good reason, as it turned out. I think it may have been one of those dupe the baby sitter things that kids can occasionally pull off and I may have convinced a babysitter that I was allowed to watch Outer Limits.

Should you, off chance, want to watch it, Robert Culp’s in it, Corpus Earthling is available on youtube.