When I was little, I used to read a lot of ghost stories, and of course, a lot of these stories dealt with mirrors and things behind them. I had a door leading straight to the family bathroom and besides the monster under my bed (we'll get to that in another anecdote), I thought that if I opened that door (which had the HUGE mirror directly on the other side) I would see SOMETHING with red eyes.
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I used to believe that there was a monster under my bed. When i went to sleep i would turn on my lamp by my bed, close the door and turn of my ceiling light, and jump to my bed and hide under the covers. I'm still a little paranoid.
When I was six I moved to the US from the UK, before getting a house, my family stayed with my grandparents. While there, my brother (9) said, "Come into the basement with me, there are aliens down there." I went with him, and naturally there are always noises in a basement. He told me that they were aliens. He then ran up the stairs and locked the door to the basement, as I was banging on the door and crying he shouted that he could hear the aliens coming to get me.
I was afraid to go onto a floor of my house by myself until I was 14 because I was afraid of being abducted by aliens.
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I remember not too long ago my nephew told me he'd seen his step-dad doing naughty things on the sofa. As you imagine I thought the worst and mentioned to my brother in law. He just laughed pointing out that the only thing my nephew had walked in on was him eating a curry. My nephew's never been allowed to eat in the living room and he considered it really NAUGHTY!
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When I was a little boy I used to think that at night, the clothes in my closet would sew them selves together and come out to attack me as a headless figure.
i used to belief that if i went into the bathroom in the dark and looked into the mirror, a man in black clothes would appear behind my shower curtain and attack me. i was scared of bathrooms for years.
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When i was 2 or 3, I remember my sister took me to the bathroom and that fan, it was on and it sounded like a lion and I said "Shut off the lion".
I used to believe that there were people living in the walls of your house, and they hated you, and thats why you got shocks when you stuck your finger in the holes!
When my son was about 5 he thought that the light-shade in his bedroon became a laser gun at night and would shoot him if he got out of bed. His favourite cuddly toy was a dog with long ears, and he would go to sleep with one of the dog's ears draped over his eyes so that the light couldn't tell if he was awake.
When I was little I used to think that there was another world on the other side of the mirror. I used to try to catch my reflection not reflecting what I was doing.
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I used to believe that if you stayed in the tub when you unplugged it you would slip down the drain!!!
when i was little, i shared a bed with my older sister, Janelle. I would always kick off the covers so she told me that if my feet were uncovered, i'd get eaten by the floor demons like our brother "Stephen". (We never had a brother named Stephen.) She told me they we on holiday, visiting their cousins the wall trolls, and they loved to snack on little toes. I was so traumatized that i still curl the covers under my feet!
When I was a little kid, only me and my two older sisters were allowed in my mother's closet. My two older brothers would've KILLED to get in there, so we'd rub it in their faces and say that there was a cart on wheels in there behind the racks of Mum's clothes, and that it was like a roller coaster that would take us around the house.
My brothers believed us until one day they were home alone, and proved otherwise...
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I used to belive that you shouldn't eat anything while looking into the mirror, otherwise you will see a devil in it!
When I was about 3 or 4, whenever I used to have a bath, I used to scream for someone to come a pull the plug out for me, and run away as soon as I heard the gurgling sound. This is because my older brother had told me that the gurgling sound was an evil skeleton who wanted my skin to wear as like a body-suit... I believed that until I was about 10. Though, I still get a little shaky every time I pull the plug!
Once, to get me to stop wasting water/electricity, my mom told me that every time you turn on the lights it cost 50 bucks on your electric bill, and when you turn on the water it cost 50 bucks on your water bill. For years I wondered where my parents were getting all this money from, and how anybody could afford water and electricity.
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everytime im ready to go to bed i have to run to my chair and then leap to my bed so i wouldn't be caught by the creature(s) that are living under my bed at night. i still believe this to this day.
I used to believe that there were demons under my bed, so when it came time to get in I would take a running leap so that anything under there couldn't grab my legs.
Sad thing is, when I watch scary movies at night, I find myself doing it again. I'm 26. I'll hang my head in shame now.
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theres a hole at the side of the bottom stair in my hall and me and my friends used 2 think a crocidle lived down there and we used 2 put bits of leaves and stones and sweetie wrappers down the hole for the crocidle to eat...it was only till a couple of years later i realied that it was my downstairs neighbours cupboard down there. lol.
When iwas younger my mom had a picture of 2 ladies in old fasioned clothes having tea hanging on the wall above the couch in our living room. Well when you look at the painting from the height of a 4 year old the one lady looks like she has a Poodle head because of the bonnet she's wearing so for years I wondered why my mom had a picture of a woman having tea with a giant poodle in a hoop skirt.