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All the postings on the Childhood Terrors thread (https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/childish-terrors.131/) got me thinking about how people first developed an interest in all this stuff. In my case, growing up in the 70s, it was a mixture of things:
1: My dad loved (and still loves) Science Fiction and Horror films, so from an early age, whenever the likes of War of the Worlds , The Day the Earth Stood Still and Star Trek cropped up on the telly, I was exposed to it. I think I knew what flying saucers were before I was old enough to go to school!
2: During the 70s, Usborne published three slim, well illustrated books on the Unexplained. They covered ghosts, UFOs and (I think) strange creatures and monsters. I seem to remember Usborne doing other, smaller-format books on things like vampires as well. The first three books were very popular reading at school, and I soon graduated up to the "weird" section in the local library.
3: Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World . Nuff said really. I've still got the book of the series somewhere! (got it for Christmas one year)
4: Classic 70s genre TV; more specifically Children of the Stones and Doctor Who with Tom Baker when it was scary and gothic. I was taken to Avebury after seeing the first one of these, and I was bricking it, but in a nice, sort of "good to be scared" kinda way.
5: Discovering FT at secondary school, and realising that there were loads of other people out there who were into strange things and weirdness.
So, what turned the rest of you onto Forteana? I'd love to find out...
1: My dad loved (and still loves) Science Fiction and Horror films, so from an early age, whenever the likes of War of the Worlds , The Day the Earth Stood Still and Star Trek cropped up on the telly, I was exposed to it. I think I knew what flying saucers were before I was old enough to go to school!
2: During the 70s, Usborne published three slim, well illustrated books on the Unexplained. They covered ghosts, UFOs and (I think) strange creatures and monsters. I seem to remember Usborne doing other, smaller-format books on things like vampires as well. The first three books were very popular reading at school, and I soon graduated up to the "weird" section in the local library.
3: Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World . Nuff said really. I've still got the book of the series somewhere! (got it for Christmas one year)
4: Classic 70s genre TV; more specifically Children of the Stones and Doctor Who with Tom Baker when it was scary and gothic. I was taken to Avebury after seeing the first one of these, and I was bricking it, but in a nice, sort of "good to be scared" kinda way.
5: Discovering FT at secondary school, and realising that there were loads of other people out there who were into strange things and weirdness.
So, what turned the rest of you onto Forteana? I'd love to find out...