This is my entry into this month’s PHC Top 3 contest.

This months topic is Scary Characters

My Nominations are:

Nomination Number One

The Bogeyman

My Reasons for the Nomination

The only thing that I get chills from at this point, is the occasional, surprising chill I get sometimes when I see a video of a “ghostly” figure moving around somewhere, usually in a house. It’s more a reactionary chill I think, because I personally don’t believe in ghosts, having never experienced an encounter myself.

The very first thing that I recall being terrified of was the Bogeyman. I can still remember the way my young brain imagined what the bogeyman was like from my parents’ and relatives’ descriptions; he was outside waiting for kids to come out, but he couldn’t be seen because he blended in with the darkness.

He would come out of nowhere and grab kids and take them away. I remember when I was about 2 or 3 years old, that I would stand inside and look out the screen door at night, trying to get a glimpse of the bogeyman. I wasn’t scared to do that, because I knew he could only get you if you went outside at night. He couldn’t come inside, which perhaps was based on some law of physics. I’m not really sure.

Nomination Number Two

The Boris Karloff Frankenstein Monster

My Reasons for the Nomination

Actually the first Frankenstein monster that I saw as a pretty young kid, (around five), was in the movie, “Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein,” which was made in 1948. Glenn Strange played the monster in that film.

Glenn also had a long-running job playing Sam, the bartender at Miss Kitty’s Long Branch Saloon on the Gunsmoke TV show. It was about five years later when I actually saw Karloff’s monster, but the Glenn Strange version was enough to make me think shadows I’d see at night were the monster in my room!

Here is the trailer for the first Karloff Frankenstein movie. His monster looks much more menacing and dangerous, than Glenn Strange’s version or Bela Legosi’s version. I think it’s Karloff's eyes, but I just thought his portrayal of the monster was so scary!

Here is the trailer for the “Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein” movie. You can’t really get a good look at the monster’s face like in the Karloff trailer, but like I said, it wasn’t as scary to me as a kid, but the idea of the monster and what it looked like and all, gave me the chills and fear of shadows even more than the bogeyman had earlier in my life.

Nomination Number Three

Daredevils and Heights

My Reasons for the Nomination

There is absolutely nothing on this earth that frightens me more than heights. It is so bad with me that a video with characters doing what these people do is sheer torture.

I simply cannot watch a video of this kind of craziness that some, I guess, call “daredevil” escapades. (I only watched a short part at the beginning of this video to make sure they were doing crazy tricks on high and narrow placements that no one should be on.

Being on something high is my worst fear and it’s gotten increasingly worse as I’ve aged.

When I was a kid I used to go to summer camp, and every year we’d hike to this cliff where we’d have to crawl on our stomachs to look over the edge, it was so high. It scared me, but not so much that I didn’t do it, but I only did it the first time and I passed on it after that. I wouldn’t do it now or ever.

It’s weird too, because flying doesn’t bother me, and if I were to go skydiving, I don’t think that would bother me, but I wouldn’t trust the parachute enough to actually do it. My fear seems to be totally centered on falling off something, and doesn’t include stuff we willingly and normally do at heights.

This is also the one fear I have complete control over, so it’s not something I think about much.

These are my top3 scariest characters. Thanks for reading!

Source for Bogeyman picture: Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay

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