in my closet

When I was four I had a dream that there were blue pit bulls in the closet that ate my sister. After that, my sisters would make me take the blame for their wrongdoings and make me go to bed really early by saying that they would open up the closet and let the blue pit bulls out to eat me.

Mary Anderlik

when i was learning to sleep in my own bed, i was sure there was a lion in my closet. i went up to my door and yelled, MOMMY, THERE'S A LION IN MY ROOM! IT GONNA EAT ME! I did that till' i was 5.

There IS a lion in my room!

I used to believe that I had 10 seconds to run up the stairs after turning off the lights in the basement or a mummy would get out of the wardrobe and kill me.

Anon

One night when I was about six I snuck a peak into my sisters room when she was having a sleepover. Shes a bout 5 years older at the time. So i looked in and i saw a scene from the movie they were watching. They were watching a chuckie movie (which i do not know which one it was to this day) and the scene was when he jumped out of the clothes in the closet and beat the woman to death with a bat. I got over that fear about one year ago. I'm 12. :(

Bijan

I used to think that there were people inside my closet so I'd sit inside my closet with the door shut and talk to them.

Kourtney

After watching ET film when I was 3, I used to close my cuoboard at night Because I was scary and I used to believe ET could be in my cupboard.

Danaël

When I was little I had a HUGE closest. But at night-time I would hear sounds from inside it and my step-dad said that the sounds were made by evil faries and that if I didn't have a light with me they would take me to be eaten.So everynight I would hide in my bed hoping that the hall light would stay on. (My stepdad turned it off at times to scare me-I hate him.)

Nadine

I used to believe that if I didn't close my closet door every night the closet monsters would try to jump under my bed the minute I shut my eyes. Then while they were under my bed I would think they were plotting to kill me and then eat me after I fell asleep. Now its just a habit to make sure my closet door is closed.

Alexis

i used t belief that everytime you open ur closet to get clothes if u picked up the wrong clothes then the boogie monster would jumout at you

linzi

I used to believe there was a lion in my closet at night. I wouldnt go to sleep till my dad came in my room, took the lion by his mane, and shoved him in the bathroom down the hall and locked it up.

lion

I believed that there was a gay person in my closet because I heard someone on the TV say:
"While that god-damn gay get out of the closet already"

Red Sox

When I was little I was lying in bed when i saw my closet door was open and to my horror, I saw a lion, it was a T-shirt that was all crumpled up and thrown in there, I was horrified and I screamed my head off until my aunt came in to see what was wrong. I pointed to the closet and screamed "A LION!" She turned on the light and it was just a t-shirt but i wasnt so easily conviced, anyone who's read Kujo knows how i felt, there was a lion in there and he wanted to eat me, he may have fooled my aunt but I was smarter then that. I didnt sleep until it was bright out, everyone knows evil lions are afraid of the sun. :P

Mary

I used to believe that after watching CLARRISSA EXPLAINS IT ALL episode the Dalring Wars that the man in the closet was in mine. From the time I was 4 to the time I was 11 I had to sleep with the nightlight on so he couldn't get me.

Tiffany Jean Greer

My friends and their kids stayed over a couple of weeks ago. Their 5 year old is afraid of monsters in the closet. Well, I sleep in my closet because it is a walk-in the size of a bedroom (in a studio apt.). We were getting ready for bed and he said that he couldn't sleep there because there were monsters in my closet. I told him there were no monsters because I sleep in there and there is nothing scarier than me!

Anon

when I was little I always was scared of being in my room alone at night because I thought there was something in my bed or in my closet. my parents had to look everywhere and reassure me that there was nothing. they still never let it go.

Kelly

I was only five when the movie Scream came out. I remember seeing a preview for it on some talk show, and it terrified me so badly that I started to think the killer lived in my closet. I was afraid to open the door because obviously, he'd stab me in the chest. When I got up every morning, I'd sit there until the sun came through my window and went under my closet door. The sunlight would temporarily vanquish the killer, and then I'd be able to get my clothes out and go about my day as usual.

My mom yelled at me a lot for taking so long to get dressed in the mornings.

Zeke

i used to believe the i could go into sailor moons world through my closet so i would stand in my closet with my eyes closed poking the so call portal i also slamed into it to test the ''portal'' acually that was a month ago im ten

anointed chirstian gal

i had a red dress from some old lady, and it was velvet it was on the door of the closet, and it hung there. i don't know what happened, but i thought one day that it was a witch dress. you know how when you touch that fabric, and move your hand upwards on it, it feels prickly, but when you move ity the opposite way, its smooth?yeah, i thought the prickly part was evil, and if there was a spot that was on the prickly side on the dress while wearing it, i'd have evil around me. so i smoothed it out every single time i wore it... took me FOREVER.

vanessa

when i was little (from as far back as i can remember actually) i couldnt sleep if my closet was open. not even a crack. it had to be all the way closed. I would make sure it was firmly closed. This persisted into my mid twenties. Now i am able to sleep if its open a crack. but i still dont like sleeping if its open any significant way so theres a darker black area visible in it in the dark. AND of course.. to close it, you have to turn the light on first. Approaching an open closet in the dark is just..not a comfortable thing to do. I tend to think i am not scared of the closet these days.. but hm.. i guess some small residue of that fear does remain. damn hollywood. its those movies. the boogyman and "they"

no such thing.