Is are you afraid of the dark really that scary?

    When I was young, I use to watch this program on Nickelodeon called SNICK and there was this was this one show called "Are you afraid of the dark" It was like a kid friendly version of "Tales of the crypt." Only I've looked at it reticently and I've noticed...
   It's not scary.


    Is anything I've seen when I was young that scary. They had stories that involves one person being a goody two shoes and another being a jackass. And for some reason there is always a story of a ghost or a vampire or aliens and it seemed to have the same theme.

   The jackass person gets captured and the goody two shoes has to save them. I don't get it. Sometimes some episodes are pretty good and there were actually celebrities like Ryan Gosling and Bobcat Godwait and even Tia and Tamara Moway stared in some episodes.

  Seemed pretty cool to have some guest stars on the show but still it just didn't seem scary to me. There are about three episodes I want to talk about that I think did creep me out the most when I was a kid.

 

 



   One was an early episode called
"The tale of the lonely ghost"
     Where two girls go into a haunted house, well one does because the other one is a bitch of a cousin and wants her cousin not be a sissy and tells a tale about a girl that died in the house during a war because she wasn't much of a talker and kids would make fun of her for not talking. She soon to be revealed to be related to the nanny who visited the cousin next door. She goes in the mirror and are both together again. I found it a little creepy when I was young, but seeing it now it's somewhat sad.

   The second one is called
"The tale of the closet keepers"
     A girl, who is deaf, is kidnapped by some creepy people who keep kids prisoner in an alien zoo and trap them with noise. She is joined by her friend and they do the best they can to free everyone, but it's up to her to save them. Why this creped me out when I was young. The guy who was keeping them, they kept showing his teeth, I didn't like that. He also had a creepy look on his face and when they try to save them, they have to use noise to escape one way or another, it's an ok episode, he's just creepy.

   The last one I want to talk about it
"The tale of locker 22"
    A new girl is being picked on at school and gets a crappy locker. She learns about who had the locker before. Her name was Candy Warren and she died tragically in an explosion. She gets a bead necklace and jumps back in time. Everyone thinks she's Candy and she had to face the same tragic death the real Candy  experienced long ago. What creped me out a little when I was young is the ending. Sometimes you never know what will happen when you change the past because when they she and a friend went back in the future, after saving her, they meet the new assistant principal 'Candy Warren'. Spooky.

     Sometimes I think of story ideas from those shows. They do help. I'm in the scary and the creepy and the unbelievable and sometimes looking back at nostalgia never hurts once in a while, but 'Are you afraid of the dark' was like jumping back into the past. It ended in the 2000's and I do miss it a little but thanks to YouTube, I can see some old episodes once more. Ciao Bloggers!