at home

My closet door absolutely had to be left opened about six inches every night. This was so the monsters could get in and out freely. I believed if I did this for them, they would leave me alone. It must have worked, because I was never bothered by any night monsters!

When I was little there used to be a ceiling fan in my room with a design on it that resembled some sort of evil man's face. I used to throw huge fits when I was put in my room by myself and I would scream "Man in the fan" and no one knew what I was saying until one day My dad figured it out and used it as a type of punishment. He would be like "If you don't be good I will leave you with the man in the fan. It worked for awhile.

I thought when you moved-like to a new house- your house would sprout legs and....move. When my parents told us we were moving I kept woundering what kind of shoes it would wear. I was really small, needless to say.

I used to believe, and almost still do (I'm 12) that if you look in a mirror through the corner of your eye, you would see scary stuff, or if you looked straight into a mirror, you would see scary stuff behind you. I still look away from mirrors in my bathroom.

When I was five I believed the Crypt Keeper lived in my bedroom closet (from insisting upon watching tales from the dead one night), I wouldn't allow my mother to turn the bedroom lights off at night until the closet was closed, so the keeper wouldn't get me as I slept.

I did, however, hold nightly conversations with her (I decided it was a female), about damn near everything.

... To this day I won't sleep without my closet shut.

After watching the Howdy Doody show I thought that the puppets would bit my toes if they stuck out of the blankets when I was asleep.

I remember someone telling me that if you looked at yourself in the mirror, without blinking for a while, you would see yourself getting older and older! I had scary visions of my 3ft self being all bearded and wrinkly in my mr men pyjamas!!

I used to believe that if you slept without socks and for some reason uncovered your feet in the middle of the night, some weird creature would come and suck the blood out of my thumb :p

I used to believe that there was a big monster under the sink that drank the water we spilled, and I was always afraid that one day it would get full of water and explode.

I always used to hate rewinding my videos when I was little, I thought that there were little people inside the VCR who did it manually and I felt bad making them work all the time.

I used to believe there were trolls living under my brother's bed.

When my brother was little, his friends mother told him that she puts her son in the dryer to dry after he takes a bath. He went home and got upset when my mother wouldn't do the same for him

As a child I was a affaid of the dark. I was just getting over my fear when a teacher said she used to believe there was a mad axa man under her bed - always. This really scared the hell outta me and it took me years to get over that comment.

When I was very small i was convinced that I could go down the bathtub drain, just like the water. I would FREAK OUT if someone didn't grab me out of the tub before the little "drain tornado" appeared. Thank god for physics.

I had a fear of seeing a person in the corner of the mirror(most of the time a morlock)

I used to believe that whoever made the mirrors would put cameras behind them and would all sit around and watch you. I would always cover up the mirror whenever I had to use that restroom. I didn't want them to see me!