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that there were cameras in all mirrors, and I was afraid to undress in front of any mirrors.
I still have a fear of hidden cameras behind hotel mirrors. I cannont bring myself to undress in front of them (like, for a shower) and if I can't get around it, then I look straight into the mirror and say, "This isn't going to be pretty." as if to warn the sick people on the other side of an oncoming ugly naked person.
anon
I used to think that every mirror, window, and every other reflective surface in the world was rigged so that I saw myself differently than anyone else. I can only assume that this would have been done to spare myself the agony of knowing how funny-looking I really - secretly - was.
Raven
After seeing the movie, “The Invisible Man”, I was sure when I looked in the mirror and saw only my face, I wasn’t seeing the invisible man because he was invisible and that he was really there. To this day, mirrors have a creepy effect on me.
Rebecca Glantz
after watching candyman, i was around 9-10, and so terrified to go to the toilet alone incase he would come up and grab me,it took me years of convincing myself that he wasnt real, still 10yrs later and i wldnt dare say his name 5 times in a mirror
shaz
When I was younger, I went to the local youth club with my best friends. The girl's toilets were seperated into two rooms - one room with the actual toilets, and another room with a small shelf and a HUGE mirror. A girl called Mary Jane told everybody that she went into the mirror room once with the lights off and said "Candyman" 3 times, and she claimed that when you did this, you could see a ghostly image of the candyman over your left shoulder, brandishing a knife.
I never went in there after that.
Scarlet
When I was little i thought that your eyes were closed until you looked into the mirror. Then they magicaly opened.
I used to believe that if you stared into a mirror for too long, the devil would start staring back at you! My mom told me this as I was quite a vain child and spent hours gazing into the mirror! Now, I still don't pause too long, you can never be too careful!
Messy Hair
at one point in my life,i thought that as mirrors reflect light,if you held two together, then there would be too much light and it would blow up.i figured out the truth when i was 7.hey, i was stupid!
mirrors dont blow up!
In Grade School, we had old mirrors that slightly doubled the image. When washing my hands, I checked myself in the mirror. I noticed a 'ghostly' double image, and because I was really sick, I thought I was dying, and that was my ghost. I had a panic attack and passed out, only to have laied there for 10 minutes until a student and thier mother found me. They claimed I looked dead and ran for help. I had gone to the hospital, and when I returned, the student was shocked to see me 'alive'. I had thought I was a zombie for years, because when I checked the mirror last, the double image had disapeered! [They had gotten new mirrors when I left]
Jennifer S.
I used to belive that when you loocked in a mirro some on else could see you and make fun of the way you look at school.
Danny
When i was younger,there was a vary old and "scary" lady across the street. I thought that if you went into the bathroom after midnight and said her name 10 times, she would come out and kill you. my friends dared me to do it, and i went into the bathroom, got freaked out, and upon trying to open the door found that it was locked, i had no way of turning on the lights because the switch was outside the door. i stayed there the whole night because i wouldn't say the old lady's name.
one of my friend's was told by his father that if you didn't turn mirrors over the reflection would run out.
pri
When I was about eight my cat died and my sister told me that when something dies the ghost goes straight to the closest mirror. (she believed this too). So when I looked in the mirror i'd say hi to my cat
~Anonymou~
When I was about 5, my grandma had this mirror on her bed, and my brother, who was older than me, said if i got Naked and went toe first into the mirror, I would be in fun land....
There is no fun land.
Exaaver
When my friend and I played outside at my Granny's house, we would look in her bedroom mirror and get scared to death at the strange people that were in there. One day we got brave enough to tell my Granny and when she came outside to see what we were talking about, she started laughing hysterically as she saw us looking at ourselves in the mirror of her vanity. We didn't look like ourselves when looking through the slats of the blinds!
MannaStacy
when i was about 6 - 7, i beleived that if you turned off the light and said *candyman* 5 times. then the candyman would jump out of the mirror and give you a poisened candy cane. and if you ate it, when you went to sleep, you would dream that the candyman would scratch you with big freddy creuger nails, and you would wake up with the scratches. then after a few weeks of having the candyman dreams, candyman would kill you.
(this was origionally a scary story told to me by a baby sitter) friends used to scare my by locking me in the bathroom with the lightswitch outside and telling me that i had to say it before they let me out. because i was afraid of the dark at the time, i said it. i was so scared.
When I was little, I used to read a lot of ghost stories, and of course, a lot of these stories dealt with mirrors and things behind them. I had a door leading straight to the family bathroom and besides the monster under my bed (we'll get to that in another anecdote), I thought that if I opened that door (which had the HUGE mirror directly on the other side) I would see SOMETHING with red eyes.
Yeahp
I used to belive that you shouldn't eat anything while looking into the mirror, otherwise you will see a devil in it!
Anna
When I was 3 I used to believe that when two mirrors face each other causing that effect where it looks like a neverending sequence of mirrors, that it would be possible to fall into the mirror and be trapped in there, so every time I saw that in the bathroom when the mirror on the door and the bathroom mirror faced each other, I would run.
TK
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