at home

I used to beleive there was this creepy man hiding behind the bathroom door, just ready to kill me when I opened it. So, in the middle of the night, being my spunky self, slowly opened the door and then quickly slammed it to the back, to find out nothing was there. I used to do it every time, thinking he somehow escaped everytime.

I used to beleive if I went to the bathroom at night and went in without turning the lights on the second I got in, this freaky chinese dragon would come and take me away... I was an odd child..

When I was little I remembered seeing movies where there were peeping toms... so I was paranoid that someone would see me "naked"... so I had a ritual before takin a shower... I'd cover the ancient and plugged up keyhole on the door, check every edge of the window curtains. And, of course, I'd get in the shower and close the shower curtains before taking anything but my socks off...

But also, if I wasn't naked then noone could spy, right? So I made sure I at least had a hair elastic on my wrist!

I used to think that at night miniture people would wander round your house and steal your stuff so wenever my mum blamed me for losing something i used to get really upset because i thought they were being mean to me.

When I was little my Mum used to tell me to turn the TV off if I wasn't watching it, or turn the lights out if I wasn't using them because I wasting power and I always used to say to her "But how do THEY know I'm wasting power?". I thought you only got charged for electricity if you were actually wasting it, and so I wondered how they knew if I was wasting it or not, how did they know if I was actually watching the teley or not?Very confusing!

HEY !!! When my Mom, was, about 5, she used to believe that (you know how sometimes, there are 2 switches in a room, one for the light, and, one for something else), well, my mom didn't know what that was for, so, when she and my aunt were fighting, her aunt would say if they kept fighting, she would flick the switch, and her neighbors would come and get them. But, she never did flick the switch, so, she stopped believing her.

my sister in law used to believe that there were dead birds in the hot water tank , so that when she was brushing her teeth she had to use the cold water or the dead birds would come out of the tap and get her

when i was 2nd grade, everytime i take a shower i was so scared that they'll be lava running out of the pipes. I was scared enough i forgot to use shampoo twise.

i used to think that if you looked into a mirror and thought something really mean about someone (like'i hate this person'),something bad would happen to either me or them. when i did think something mean in front of a mirror, i held my breath until i got out of the room.

When I was young, my sister who is 6 years older would have to babysit us all summer long. To keep us in line she used a metal yardstick (which she called "the beater".) Although I don't think she ever actually whacked us with it, for years I thought a wodden yardstick was called a yardstick, and the metal ones were called beaters.

When I was young, I was terrified of JAWS. I used to think that when I was in bed, if my leg or arm was hanging off the side, JAWS would jump out of the ocean drag me into the water and eat me. I lived in Philadelphia at the time.

I found an analog stopwatch on the kitchen table and pressed a button on it. I started freaking out when it started ticking, thinking that it was a ticking time bomb. I went to my mother and asked, "Mom, are there any bombs in Oklahoma?" She said that there might be somewhere. "Are there any in this house?!" Man, I was so relieved that she said no, because I thought we all were dead for sure!

I used to believe that if I was not out of the tub before all the water ran out, that I would somehow go down the drain as well.

When I was little, and I still do now, I used to believe that our hatstand in our hallway was real. Everytime I passed the hall, I'd run real fast so he wouldn't get me. Mum had fatted it up with all her coats, hats and scarfs, so it looked like a real giant. Because of this weight, it would constantly fall over, and I was really afraid after I was standing next to it when it fell on me. I thought it was about to eat me! I'm still scared of it now. It is PURE EVIL!~ it will kill us all in our sleep! I still hate that hatstand.

When I was little I wasn't supposed to walk behind the television (it was on the floor) because of all the cords and my parents were scared I would somehow electrocute myself. I ALWAYS wanted to go back there so I would cover my own eyes and peek just a tiny bit and slowly walk back there. I thought that since my eyes were covered they couldn't see me :)

i used to believe that a monster would come out of the showerhead if i closed my eyes but it couldnt hurt me if i touched something white, so i always made sure i was holding on to the tile in the tub to be safe.