Saw some gifs on my dash that reminded me that Hexxus from FernGully: The Last Rainforest made me genuinely spooked of floor-based ventilation for…quite a while as a child.

In hindsight, I should not be surprised that being precocious and listening to Dracula in audiobook form (sometimes at night!) in 2nd grade made me afraid of the dark for years.

I had friends that year tell me Goosebumps books were scary. I read some a couple grades later and felt I had had something overhyped to me.