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The three things I was most scared of when I was a kid were leprosy, quicksand, and tapeworms.

Posted on August 7, 2026 at 03:50:26 PM by Alpo

Also my grandmother told me that there were gangs of blacks at a Cleveland mall that would take five year old boys and cut off their penises in the restrooms. That scared me too but that was a more localized thing.

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Leprosy cases are on the rise in Florida. Here’s how to reduce your risk - By rkm August 7, 2026 at 03:13:31 PM
- Ought to just send the infected to Devil's Island from Papillion. * - By django August 7, 2026 at 04:23:13 PM
- The three things I was most scared of when I was a kid were leprosy, quicksand, and tapeworms. - By Alpo August 7, 2026 at 03:50:26 PM
  - Oh yeah, we were led to believe as kids in the 80s that quicksand would be an important danger in life* - By wingedvictory August 7, 2026 at 04:22:19 PM
    - 70's too. It was literally in 50% of the plots on Gilligan's Island and Lost In Space * - By Spirit August 7, 2026 at 04:45:15 PM
  - Honest to God my mom told me stories about "perverts" that would do the same thing at Genesee Valley Mall in Flint * - By Spirit August 7, 2026 at 03:58:29 PM
    - Urban myth told by kids around here too. But at least when I was a kid, we had a real incident to reference, even if completely irrelevant... - By rkm August 7, 2026 at 04:17:10 PM
- The leprosy scenes in Ben Hur used to scare me as a kid * - By Spirit August 7, 2026 at 03:20:27 PM
  - Grade school nuns told scary stories of leprous deformed missionaries in Africa, Polynesia and other heathenous places. Confession: If they're still alive, I own a Pagan baby in Biafra... - By rkm August 7, 2026 at 03:38:28 PM

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