Which Aliens scared you as a kid...

[SamuelAWilkinson]

>Triffids. Hands down, no contest, the scariest aliens on TV. Evah.


Triffids? Aliens? Are you quite mad? They were created on Earth, man! They only got to take over the world 'cause of a coincidental meteor strike that blinded everyone.

[Max Kon]

i was scared of the power rangers... but not of any aliens

[Adrian Bamforth]

"Genesis of the Daleks had plenty of scares, number one of which was Davros."

Davros brings out the cripple-phobic in us all.

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[Rob Spalding]

The Moomins freaked me out.
As did some cartoon about a girl(I think) and her polar bear.  No idea what that was.
I once demanded to be let out of a Sooty stage show 'cos the ghosts frightened me.
And I'm starting to see a theme about white going on here.  Hmm.

Never scared by an alien as I recall, now if there had been a white furry one...

There was, and I do believe the monster in the cave in Empire did freak me a bit.

Weird.

[Pete Wells]

I was a right wuss as a bairn and can't beleive some of the stuff that used to scare me, including... the Cadbury's Smash robots!

Pete.

[House of Usher]

My enormous wardrobe scared me, actually. It had a cardboard box on top, squarely in the middle, and looked like a giant square robot. I could have asked someone to move the box for me, but when you're a kid you don't think of things like that.

[auxlen]

Triffids (BBC version) superb!
Zygons (because they whispered)
And a photo of a 'ghost' sitting in the back of a car leaving a funeral terrified me for many years...

[WoD]

I used to get nightmares of Daleks and Triffids.  

I thought Triffids were grown from 'seeds from space'...

[House of Usher]

'seeds from space'

Nah, that was just wild speculation in the book, I think. There were actually a hybrid monster created in Soviet laboratories to provide industrial lubricants and fuel oils.

[ming]

Aliens, monsters, when you're a nipper and scared witless, what's the difference?

That and the giant rats nibbling at Dr. Who probably kept me awake for weeks.  Not alien rats, granted, but... (Talons of Wen Chiang was it?)

[hag]

Watership Down was a scary film.

[Matt Timson]

...The ones that used to sneak in through my cupboard door in the dead of night and stick probes up my ass...

[Leigh S]

"And a photo of a 'ghost' sitting in the back of a car leaving a funeral terrified me for many years..."

From the supposed Chidrens book/series "Mysteries of the Unknown"?

Truly freaky, with her evil glowing eyes!  Still looking to replace this book, as my sister destroyed it rather than face the sinister forces within!

[johnnystress]

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[Woolly]

Heh. Not looked at that book for years, but i instantly knew the photo!

I remember being freaked by the 'faceless man' in Sapphire & Steel as a kid.
The only aliens ive ever found truly unsettling are the wierd elongated ones at the end of 'Close Encounters'.