My big weakness came suddenly one night watching the Whirlybirds.
The plot involved a Gorilla escaping from a railroad car and roaming the countryside.
At the time I lived on a farm, nearest neighbors a mile away. That night I had a dream hundreds of Gorillas were coming across the old dirt road from the woods and invading our farmhouse.
That and the Wizard of Oz made for some very interesting nights.
In those days I slept on the second floor of the farmhouse, with no heat. We went to bed with a brick headed on the old wood stove, wrapped in newspaper.
Say what you will, but that kept us warm.
And let’s not even talk about the trauma to kids, of the original King Kong movie! The early scenes of that movie - the big wall with the gate, the suspense - are the scariest thing I recall seeing on TV as a kid.
(The heated brick is a great idea for the Prepper thread ;=)
-JT