monsters

When I was five, my mom would always tell my brother and I that if we weren't good for the babysitter, a Boogie Man would get us. She said it stayed in the walls and watched us.

One night I was bad at the babysitters, I bit my brother. She told me I was a really naughty girl.

As I slept that night, I woke up and saw a Green Head poking out of the wall. (I didn't realize It was just part of a bad dream).

I asked all the kids in Kindergarten if they had ever seen the Boogie Monster.

They all said NO. So for another five years I was convinced I was the worlds most rotten kid. I wouldn't do anything wrong. I wanted to be a good kid, so the Boogie Man would not come back.

Imagine the horror when I heard my mother tell my brother there was no such thing. That it was made up to scare kids.

To this day my mother does not know what she did to me, with her little boogie man story.

Not so scared, or good anymore. lol

i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time

Luc Lemmel

I used to think there were monsters hiding in shoes, so I didn't like it if there were shoes laying on the ground in the room; I would keep turning around because I felt they were watching me.

Elaine

When i was nine i used to think that gnomes came alive when i watered the flowers. Therefore i always threw the water and ran. To this day i still don't have water fights near any flowers.

Vicki 23

When I was a child, I strongly believed that Giants lived in amongst the mountain ranges. It was something I didn't shake until I was twelve.

Dan

When i was six i saw the cartoon "The Snowman". I damn near crapped myself, as i was convinced that the snowman was actually evil, as it took the boy away from his parents. It reached the point where if i ever saw a snowman i would either run away of jump up and down on it's snowy corpse, screaming like a madman.
The first snowman i made was at age 15, and i still thought i saw his dull pebble eyes looking at me hungrily . . .
Scary huh?

Michael Collins

I thought that nightmares were in fact evil monsters that would come and get me through the heating vent. The sound from the heating vent in our old home was a "shuh-shuh,shuh-shuh," and when it came on,my brother would tell me those were the nightmares coming to get me!

Lainey

I used to have a terrible fear of Bigfoot. I was convinced that he was 'just around the corner,' waiting for the perfect time to grab me. It was especially horrible on very windy days. The wind would whip around the house, howling very loudly and I just knew that it was Bigfoot letting me know that my time was up!
Once, while visiting someone's house, I hid in a closet. This house had huge, screened windows and I just knew that it would be so much easier for Bigfoot to reach in and take me away through those things...

...but I'm all better now. I think.

Dawn

i used to believr that a goblin lived in my elevator shaft and controlled the elevator movement. this idea was given to me by the janitor who thought it would be funny to scare me....it worked, i never went in the lift in that building again, and 10 flights of stairs is alot for a wee boy!!!

tha_man

I was pretty sure monsters were real because once I slipped from a nightmare where monsters were taunting me and I was just wrapped up in the blanket and eventually I made a run for it and got my mum and was confused that they were gone when I came back with her.

Another time I was looking at a night light falling asleep and a face came up and talked to me, it reinforced my belief. So far I haven't been proved incorrect though =p.

Dave

I always believed (why, I haven't a clue) that Dracula, Frankenstine, Werewolf, and all the other monsters were locked up on Alcatraz, and they would eventually break out. Since we lived in the Bay Area, we occasionally went over the Bay Bridge. I just *knew* they were going to break out as we were crossing it! I would get down on the floor of the backseat, and pull my sweater, or whatever over me to try to hide....this belief I held till pre-teen years! lol

Coyotebleu

once i had seen the film jurassic park by steven speilberg when my landing light went out that dinosaurs would come up my stairs and eat me

tom

All my life, I have had very bizarre dreams. As a little girl and still in my cot, I remember one dream I had about a small hole by the door of the small room I slept in when my brothers lived with us. It was a very realistic dream and I thought that there really was a tiny Yorkshire terrier in there that came out and the dream just felt scary despite that I loved and cared for dogs a lot. I had another dream whereby I was outside my cot and a pack of odd and somewhat ghostly dogs emerged from the hole led by what I now recognise as a weimaraner. I believed that if I stared at it for long enough, one of the dogs would come out and bark at me again. Linked to this, I also had dreams that weren’t nightmares but made me nervous about these bizarre things without faces that were like bullet shaped moons. They sometimes spoke and the only distinction with any of them was that the females always wore spotty pinners. We had these concrete things that are still there by our local fish and chip shop and they looked kinda like them and had chains on them. I used to be afraid that they would come to life at night and thought maybe they were the same things that I saw in my sleep. They never chased me or anything in my dreams but I found them freaky and was a nervous child anyway. I also had a belief that had I not slept under the covers, a purple, anthromorphic wolf in striped pyjamas would get me. I dreamed that he/it did come to check on me once and I always felt safe under the duvet. Even though I’ve no fears now, I always sleep out of habit pretty much under the covers.

Ocean-Sirius

I used to think that this one dark corner in our house was inhabited by monsters. Everytime I had to go near it, I sang a happy tune thinking that the monsters would stay away because they didn't like music.

Goatgirl

When I was little we had stairs which you could see through and my bedroom was opposite them. For years I believed that if I didn't fall to sleep quickly that a wolf (like in the three pigs) would come up the stairs ( carrying a butchers knife)to eat me!

Anon

When I was five my big brother told me that a big fire ball came round every year. It rolled around the streets sucking people in and killing them. I believed him and was totally terrified. I'm 23 now and he still laughs about it today.

Jess

There was a big window over my parents bed. I used think that a giant would walk through the streets every night peer into people's windows to look at sleeping children. Whenever I slept in my parents bed I would hide way down in the covers so that the giant wouldn't see me.
I would picture him looking in the window and saying to himself, "Nope, no sleeping children here."

SarGeek

one night i heard a monster growl. i screamed and my mom came running in with an aerosol can and claimed to capture them inside somehow. i imagined them all sitting in this cylindrical cell. i still believe in monsters, but not in spray-cans.

puke-green death ray

I believed zombies were everywhere and they came out at night to get you...making that horrible moaning sound and dragging one leg. I chose the bedroom furthest away from the top of the stairs so I would be the last to be eaten and therefore, have a chance to escape as the zombies came to get us.

Bumblepug