Spartacus Mills
Fresh Blood
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Hi there – long time lurker, etc etc..
Apologies if this sounds needlessly paranoid, insane or even somewhat mundane but this is the first time I’ve spoken about this and still affects me to this day.
When I was about 9 or 10 (around 1982-83), myself and my friend would regularly play in the woods near my house. On one occasion, we were just chatting as children do; what we watched on TV, what we had done that day, etc, when my friend told me a story about a record his brother had bought in which either the cover or a song (can’t remember which or it may had been both) depicted/spoke about a man falling from a tower.
So far, so ordinary.
However, the fear I felt when he told me the story was like nothing I’d ever felt (at the time or since), it shocked me to the core. Of course, being a young boy I tried to hide this from my friend but could not stop thinking about it. The next thing I remember I was running home through the fields adjoining the woods, panicked and terrified with the story playing through my mind.
That night, I couldn’t sleep, the story imprinted on my mind and I ran into my parents room in a blind panic saying I had a nightmare (I didn’t tell them about the story, thinking they would see it as foolish). Even now when I think about being told this story, I get a faint but deep feeling of panic and terror.
Why did something so seemingly mundane and ordinary scare me so much? Why does it still give me feelings of terror (albeit diluted through time)? Was it just an overactive imagination? Somewhat sinisterly and maybe I’m being paranoid here, but did something terrible happen to me in the woods that day that I have blanked out but now associate with the story, thereby triggering the fear? Your comments would be welcomed……
Apologies if this sounds needlessly paranoid, insane or even somewhat mundane but this is the first time I’ve spoken about this and still affects me to this day.
When I was about 9 or 10 (around 1982-83), myself and my friend would regularly play in the woods near my house. On one occasion, we were just chatting as children do; what we watched on TV, what we had done that day, etc, when my friend told me a story about a record his brother had bought in which either the cover or a song (can’t remember which or it may had been both) depicted/spoke about a man falling from a tower.
So far, so ordinary.
However, the fear I felt when he told me the story was like nothing I’d ever felt (at the time or since), it shocked me to the core. Of course, being a young boy I tried to hide this from my friend but could not stop thinking about it. The next thing I remember I was running home through the fields adjoining the woods, panicked and terrified with the story playing through my mind.
That night, I couldn’t sleep, the story imprinted on my mind and I ran into my parents room in a blind panic saying I had a nightmare (I didn’t tell them about the story, thinking they would see it as foolish). Even now when I think about being told this story, I get a faint but deep feeling of panic and terror.
Why did something so seemingly mundane and ordinary scare me so much? Why does it still give me feelings of terror (albeit diluted through time)? Was it just an overactive imagination? Somewhat sinisterly and maybe I’m being paranoid here, but did something terrible happen to me in the woods that day that I have blanked out but now associate with the story, thereby triggering the fear? Your comments would be welcomed……