at home

When I was younger, for some odd reason I thought that there was huge rats under my bed and only came out at night so for a long time I was afride to get out of bed to use the bathroom cause I thought they would bite my feet.

I used to believe that rats were under my bed and only came out at night and you couldn't see them in daytime I was so scared at night. I have to idea why I thought that.

when I was younger, my brother convinced me that in the back of our bedroom closet was a portal to another world. The door could only be opened if you knocked on the wall at 12 midnight. In this other world, you could fly around on hoverboards (Like in Back to the Future) and drink Cream Soda (which at the time I had never tasted before) all night long...

this magical portal later moved to the wall in our laundry room.

When I was 6 or 7 I thougt that sharks and alligators lived under my bed. I was so convinced that if I lifted my bedskirt I would be drowned and eaten alive by these creatures. One day my mom was cleaning and I saw her lifting the bedskirt. I closed my eyes and started screaming, in preperation for the meal I was about to become.

When I was younger the scariest place in the world was my grandpa's closet because he always told me that there was a booger in it. I always pictured this big green man living with my grandparent's clothes. It baffled me that they didn't call the police. Later I found out that he kept a shotgun and didn't want me to go playing with it.

When my younger sister was learning to talk, she used belive that napkins were called 'damnaps' because my brother or I would forget them so often when we set the table, that my mom would say in exaspiration "you forgot the damn napkins!" She heard "you forgot the damnaps kids!"

When I was young and use to take baths, my mother would pull the drain in the tub and there would be a glug-glug sound
I believed that in the drain lived a family of bath tub people that drank the water as their food, one day there was a perticulary scary sound that came from the drain and what i believe to have happened was that the daddy bathtub person got greedy and drank all the familys water and exploded as a result

My uncle used to tell me the shoe-box under his bed had smurfs (cartoon characters) living in it. Unfortunatly he couldn't show me because they would disappear in the light. I spent hours whispering to them so they wouldn't get lonely. [I never did look in the box, OR find out what was in it!]

When I was about four, I was playing with my three-year-old sister and I somehow convinced her (and myself) that the way people sew is by sticking their needles into the electrical sockets, and then the thread appears. So I grabbed a fuzzy wire and stuck it in. Needless to say, I had to be rushed to the hospital and my entire hand and nails were black. I was luck I didn't loose feeling in my arm. Smart kid.

when i was younger i found myself to be very gullible, and believed every word my brother ever said to me. boy that was a mistake. when we were in the garage, there is that cord hanging down and he told me to never pull it unless theres a robber or bad guy in the garage..and when you pull the cord the garage door would fall off the hinges and crush the guy. i was so afaid to even look at it, and i gave it some thought, andi realized if i pulled it that i too would get crushed. only recently have i found out what the cord does..but i still wouldnt wanna pull it

I used to believe there were lions under my bed who came out when it was dark and blocked the route from my bed to the door. If I bravely managed to cross the room (by jumping between bits of furniture, the rug etc) I believed there were more out in the hall between my room & the bathroom. There was a certain route I had to take across the carpet (it was only about 4 steps!!) in order to make sure I didn't get eaten

When I was very young, my father used to sing me a little song while he bathed me. It went "my baby has gone down the plughole, my baby has gone down the drain. My baby has gone down the plughole, I'll never see baby again!" he used to sing it in a very sad voice. I believed that if I didn't cling on to the side of the bath I would go down the plughole and have to live with all the other babies who'd suffered the same fate. I was too small to hold on to the bath and I used to scream and scream at the mention of having a bath not because I didn't want to live in the drain's with the other babies but because I didn't want to make my father sad!

I used to beleive that there was a giant polar bear living in my closet . . . and if I opened the door it would come roaring out and eat me. I never wanted to get dressed because I would have to open the closet to get clothes out. I woud run out of the room whenever my mother started to open it so I could get ready for school.

When i was around 6, my mom told me that little men lived inside the blender and every time we turned it on then they would yell as loud as they could. and thats why is was so loud.

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.

When I was little, I always jumped out of the bathtub before the stopper was pulled because I thought you could could get sucked down the drain and you would end up in China. I would scream if one of my parents would pull the stopper and I was still in the water. My dad finally showed me that even my tiny child foot was larger than the drain and there was no chance it was going down.