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The Legends of the Hidden Temple Guards Still Give Me Nightmares

Legends of the Hidden Temple was an iconic children’s game show that featured the most traumatizing figures: Temple Guards.

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If you’re a product of the 90s and early 2000s, you might remember one of the most iconic kids’ game shows ever, Legends of the Hidden Temple. As iconic as it was, it was also nightmare-inducing. Teams of kids battled through physical and mental challenges for a shot at the Temple Run at the end of the game. Naturally, Nickelodeon did everything possible to permanently scar not only the contestants but audiences watching.

The Temple Guards—controlled by Olmec, a giant rock statue, and hidden so that they could jump scare the kids in an attempt to eliminate them—were one of the scariest........

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