Must be the season of the witch

It’s fun to think about the things that scared us when we were little. Everyone does it!

I used to spend a lot of time on Kindertrauma (“Your happy childhood ends here!”), where people shared the things that kept them awake at night, way back when.

The good thing about the Kindertrauma community was the honesty. You could tell that people were sharing things that actually unnerved them when they were young. They weren’t trying to be cute, or clever, or ironic. So the end result was an archive of truly diabolical… stuff.

I’m taking the same approach here. For instance, I’m not going to suddenly start pretending that I used to have an issue with clowns. Clowns are funny! We used to be good friends with a clown, in fact.

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