Can anyone remember a ghost story (or other scary story) that terrified you as a child, but now seems rather ho-hum?

In what I remember about the Hook-Man—an announcement on the radio came about a man with a hook for a hand—a murderer—had escaped from an asylum—and at that time, the “hero” of the story sees a bloody hook on a doorknob. Everyone screams.

And when I was at Cumberland Caverns in Tennessee, I remember hearing one about a boy who was exploring the caves with a candle—and fell in a pit of slime—and today, people sometimes report seeing an apparition of a boy covered with slime carrying a candle in the dark. Scared the bejebus out of us,
Even after we were at the caverns.

Even when I was eleven, I remember this little rhyme I read somewhere terrified me:

Late at night, when the last light is gone,
And you’re almost too sleepy to yawn…
Put your ear to the wall
And you will hear “The Thing” crawl.
But don’t cry… it leaves before dawn…

And this from Lewis Carol:

I dream’t I dwell’t In Marble Halls
And each damp thing that creeps and crawls
Went ‘wobble wobble’ on the walls.

I can’t imagine how these were ever scary—but when we were kids, they were. Maybe we were already scared when we heard them.

Can you remember anything that terrified you as a child but is now rather dull?