Hello world, I'm Allie, and for about two decades of my life, I had convinced myself that I'd completely imagined the film Return to Oz as part of my nightmare-ish childhood imagination gone awry.
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I couldn't remember the plot, or...literally anything about it. Just terrifying snippets I was sure I'd made up in my dumb baby brain.
It wasn't until, funnily enough, I stumbled upon a BuzzFeed dot com the website post about the movie (long before I even worked here) that I discovered I did not, in fact, imagine a terrifying headless witch with a room full of heads she'd collected! Imagine my relief!
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Years of therapy saved!
WELL, this week I learned I'm not the only one to experience this odd phenomenon when redditor u/Environmental-Fix-71 asked in a viral thread, "What's a movie you saw as a kid that only you seem to remember?" and people came through with all sorts of films-that-feel-like-fever-dreams!
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So, with that in mind, here are just a few of the childhood memories/movies/absolute nightmares shared:
1.Mac and Me (1988)
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2.Wee Sing in Sillyville (1989)
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3.Gay Purr-ee (1962)
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4.Magic Island (1995)
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5.Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real (2004)
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6.Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
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7.Cats Don't Dance (1997)
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8.Batteries Not Included (1987)
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9.Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975)
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10.How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
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11.The Halloween Tree (1993)
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12.The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
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13.The Black Cauldron (1985)
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14.A Troll in Central Park (1994)
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15.Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)
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16.The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
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17.Quest for Camelot (1998)
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18.The Last Unicorn (1982)
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19.Prancer (1989)
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20.Monster Squad (1987)
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21.Susie Q (1996)
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22.Time Bandits (1981)
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23.Pippi Longstocking (1997)
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24.The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
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25.Babes in Toyland (1961)
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26.The Red Balloon (1956)
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27.Flushed Away (2006)
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28.Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)
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29.The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin (1986)
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30.And finally: Pagemaster (1994)
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All right, you've read theirs, but now it's YOUR turn! Do you remember any of these? What's a movie from your childhood that you feel like absolutely no one else has heard of? Share yours in the comments below!
Some responses were edited for length and/or clarity. H/T: Reddit.