at home

I used to believe that there were 3 people that lived under my bed. On the outside edge, there were two scientists. There were constantly scheming on how to do experiments on me but they could only reach me if I were to just walk up to the edge of the bed and get in. Apparently they weren't "allowed" to get out from under the bed, only to reach out with their arms. They also could only "get" me if while I was in the bed, I allowed my hand or foot to dangle over the edge. So I of course would run and jump onto the bed from as far back as possible. Then there was the Carrot Man. He was a happy guy that lived in the center under my bed. He had a long white beard and just layed there surrounded by carrots and eating them all day and night. I have no idea where any of these characters came from in my bizarre imagination. I am however a science teacher today. Go figure.

At my house, whenever the furnace kicked on, it would make a really loud noise. When I was little I used to believe that if i was in the hall right next to it when it went on, ghosts or demons would come out. I remeber once screaming in terror because it came on when i was in the hall. I always made sure it sounded before i went to the bathroom or anything.

I used to believe that when coming up from the basement I needed to be fast because the creature that lived under the stairs would reach through and grab me. This was especially scary because each step had an opening under it.

When I was six or seven, and I used to play on 'James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies' on the Playstation 1, I would always go to bed, fearing that a terrorist with an assault rifle would pop up during the night and get me. I'm twelve now and have since got over this belief...thankfully.

if i was already in bed w/ the light turned off and i wanted to get out of bed for some reason i would jump away from the underneath part of my bed. i was scared that someone might have snuck in my house during that and that they would attack me.

we have a laundary shoot. i was sooo fascinated by it when i was younger. i thought it was a mail box to a different dimension ... so one day, i took a note that said "to my message friend" on it and it said "wanna be friends?" and had a poem on it ... every day i would throw something down there. it wasnt in use,but after awhile it was clogged up with notes and gifts, so it never came out where it was supposed to. well, a few weeks ago, i remebered that i used to do that, and i wondered where all that stuff went? so i got a broom and loosened everything up and out fell: 7 funny notes and stupid poems, a beanie baby, some junk mail, a few computer game CDs, and and some reading glasses ...

When I was young there was a small door in the back of my closet that opened into the attic. To keep me out of there, my grandfather would tell me that if I went between the wooden slats where the insulation was, that I would fall straight into the furnace and burn up. That was enough to keep me out of the attic!

when I was takinga bath my mom used to say "be sure to close the door so the draft doesn't get in" but I thought she was saying giraffe. So I would always leave the door open so the giraffe could get in to play in the tub with me, but my mom would always close it.

i used to belive that there were evil things waiting for me every day before i used to go to bed. my mom told me that there are wicked mosters that will grab my legs and eat me alive. well that scared the crap out of me so everytime(till this day) before i go to bed, i jump into my bed and pray that nothin will ever come and get me =)

When I was 7-ish my older sister told me that if I didn't brush my teeth before bed that the springs in my bed would come up and stab me! I still get slighlty paranoid if i hear the springs in my be move.

I saw the phantom of the opera in theaters for the first time and i believed that if i sang in front of my mirror, the phantom would take me through the mirror and make me marry him.

When I was about 5 years old, I saw these ads on TV for Cottonelle toilet paper. Well, the woman in the ad had all these huge cotton balls around her, so I thought that the toilet paper would turn into these huge balls if I scrunched them. So I asked my mom if we had Cottonelle toilet paper, she said yes, so I went into the bathroom and wasted a whole roll trying to make big fluffy clouds like on TV!

it didn't work.. :( haha

I used to believe that that the bag hanging in the shower was to pee in.
So I peed in the bag hanging in the shower all the time. I found out later that this bag was a folding enema bag.

When I was about 5, my cousin would come over to play (she is 5 years older than I am), she would go to the bathroom and lock me out, and starting carrying on about duckies being int he bathtub. I would beg for her to let me in,and when she did, she'd say they went down the drain because they diddnt like me. I believed her for years.

i used to belive that when i waw little, my sisters and me would do very bad things, so we always used to stand in the corners. i always though when i was bad, the walls would suck me in because i was bad.

My mother told me that there were monsters living in electrical sockets so if I stuck my hand in the wholes the monsters would bite my hand off...... I never did it, but everytime I would pass an electrical socket I would try and see the monsters.

I used to believe that if you left the cloet door open at night the devil would come out of it and get you. I also used to believe that if my feet were to close to the edge of the bed, the boogie man would pull me down and eat me alive.