It’s 10
PM; do you know where your children are? — This was a regional program bumper / public service announcement from the
late 1960’s through to the late 1980’s. In some regions, there was an 11
PM variant. This was sometimes the lead in to news programs. But best of all, it was NIGHTMARE FUEL for some of the best childhood ghost stories and URBAN MYTHS that kept a kid awake at night after scary stories were inappropriately told to them by mischievous baby sitters.
No
mommy, this
never happened to me…honest!!!!!!! Nor, was I ever the perpetrator of telling such a tale.
…And then while the
mom was watching t.v., a man came on the screen and said, “It’s 10
PM; do you know where your children are?”. A shiver went down the mother’s spine so she went to check on her kids. When she opens the
door there was a man standing over her children's dead bodies holding a bloody butcher knife. AND HE WAS WEARING A BUNNY SUIT…