at home

This is actually about my bathtub. When I was 3-7 years old, we had a round lever on our wall that had "wolverine" writen on it because that was its companies name. It had 2 bolts on the sides of it that looked like eyes, with the slit in them to make it look like it was almost closed but sleeping, and a lever in the middle that you pulled down to drain the water. Well I always thought that there was a monster in our wall called wolverine and if the water got too high and reached him, he would wake up, his eyes would open (the bolts), and he would jump out and eat me. So for years I tried not to touch him a at all except to drain the water, which I thought he drank.

Ok this is when I was around 7 I believed that if I wasn't on my bed when I was in my room and it was dark someone would jump out and capture me. Like I had this lamp on a nightstand next to my bed and my light switch was by the door. Well every night I would walk into my room turn the light switch on and the lamp then turn the light switch back off jump into bed turn the lamp off then go to sleep. Except I wasn't afraid of the dark because I would spend hours in the attic which had no electricity at all on some nights.

One time I went to my friend's house to spend the night, and I showed her this sight of "true" ghost stories. One was that a girl, with a bunk bed, held a hand but it wasn't her sister's hand. Another was this girl claiming she saw long hair hanging outside the window. Well, that night, when we went to bed, we seriously laid awake for an hour or so scared that hair or a hand would come down from her top bunk. Finally we fell asleep. But to this day we still get scared about the hand and hair whether it's from the top bunk, a window, or just the plain darkness.

I used to believe that when you went into the bathroom, you had to sing the ABC's. At the end when you say "Next time wont you sing with me" I always asked my mom to sing with me because I thought you had to ask someone to sing with you.

When I took my shower, I thought bad spirits could arrive through the evacuation holes. So, I would put a plastic glass on it and put my foot on it. It was very handy to take a shower with on efoot on a plastic glass !!!

I used to believe there were monsters under my bed and that at night they went out in town to party.

i used to believe that a snake lived along the bottom of my duvet and that if my feet poked out, it would bite them. to combat this i had the fold the duvet in around me like a cocoon. oh and big ted was the only person who could protect me in case the snake got in - i still sleep with him and i'm 27!

I used to think that there was a factory where toys, who were alive, were tortured and torn apart by an evil talking dog who oversaw the operation. I didn't stop believing this until my mother forced me to clean underneath of my bed, and I didn't find him there. Ha!

i was scared to be left in the tub by myself because i thought sharks would come out of the drain and eat me. and i also didnt want the water to get so dirty that i wouldnt be able to see it. i thought if i could see the drain that it wouldnt come out. finally one day i tryed looking in there when my mom caught me and told me there was nothing in there. i felt so stupid. i was about 5 or 6 when it happened.

My brothers told me and my twin that when we were in the bath that there were lots of monsters in the plug hole waiting to attack uswhen we were in the bath therefore when we went in the bath wed squish up in 1 end if the bath and my mam could never understand why!!

I used to believe…

about 12 years ago when i was 4 my mum, dad, sister and i were all in the lounge. My sister and I were playin Noah's Ark memory game with animals and my parents were watching a film. My dad said to my sister, "Amy-Jo, can you shut the door because there is a draft coming through?" I sat there in amazement! We carried on playin the game and I kept lookin up at the door. About ten minutes after my sister had shut the door I walked over and sat on my mums lap and said...."Is there really a giraffe coming through?"!!!! Bless!

I used to practice the piano in my grandma's apartment in the basement of our house. I believed that if I played a wrong note, a lion would burst out of the closet door and attack me. But when I did play a wrong note and nothing horrible happened, I figured it would take two wrong notes. And after two wrong notes, it would take three, etc.

I used to lock myself in the bathroom when small, and mix small amounts of face creams, aftershaves, toothpastes and shower gels together in a plastic pot. I somehow thought I could make a 'wonder potion' that could do everything. I imagined i was creating something important that my mum would love.

When i was younger i was told that my uncle was the bogie man and that he was hiding in the cupboard under the stairs so i would never go in their i was teriffied

my mom and dad had friends that lived down the street from us. they had a son who was about my age (3-5 at the time)and they would often come over to visit in the evening. around 8 or 9 pm they would put us to bed in my full size bed to sleep while they stayed to play cards. one night he told me that there were wolves underneath my bed and that if i let my feet or arms dangle they would bite me. to this day i cant let any of my body parts hang off the side of my bed.

when i was rather small, i had a nightmare about a man that lived in my basement workshop. for years i would not go down there by myself.