We had a big old mixmaster that I used to help turn while the beaters whirred around. I believed that if you turned the bowl the opposite direction, the batter would unmix. I was afraid I'd get in trouble if I tried it.
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When I watched a movie it had purple gozze coming out of the focet and for about three years I would turn on the the water and run out of the room for 5 minutes and then come back in and check it of corse it was always ok so i'd go headed and take a bath.
When I was about 5 I was sooooo afriad of the closet at nite I would rip all the clothes down out of my closet and turn on all the lights and put them back up in the morning so my friends didn't think i was a scarried cat.
I used to believe there was a monster under my bed and if i put my hand down the side of my bed he would suck me down. I would always stick my hand down there and pull it back up quickly.
When I was younger, my older brother would always tell me that a guy would pop out of my closet and eat me if I werent asleep when my parents told me to. And one night I didnt listen to them and my brother hid in my closet and jumped out and pretended that He was the psycho. I was really scared
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remember the clown from the movie Poltergeist, when it hides under the bed and attacks the kid, well after seeing the movie,when i was much too young to be watching something like that, i had nightmares for years that it was under my bed and i still to this day, i'm 30 now, hate having my toes pocking out at the foot of the bed...that clown is there i tell you!
i used to believe that when i was little that monsters lived in my basement and i couldn't go down there alone and whenever you went to the bathroom and flushed the toilet the monsters came up through the closet so i would flush then run.
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I used to believe that aliens were in the bathub and they could get me at any time.
My mom once told me that if I talked into the box fan(to make my voice sound funny) that the motor would overheat and it would explode. I believed that until I was about 15.
my bedroom has a window that you can easily get in to because it Leads into the porch. and i used to think that a kid napper would brake in and try to kid nap me so i put like 10 stuffed animals under my blanket so i looked really fat so they wouldnt bother trying to pick me up. and every morning i would wake up and say yay it worked!
When i was younger i believed that Chuck from childs play would com into my room and try to kill me so i would hide under my covers thinkinghe wouldn't see me if i was perfectly still.
After seeing the movie Pinocchio's Revenge, I was so scared to turn off the VCR, Because it ended with big, blue wooden eyes.. I thought he was really evil and was under my bed.. I left the TV on all night. I wouldn't get out of bed at night for at least a month.
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I used to wonder why the oven didn't set food on fire!
When I was little I lived in this house and in the bathroom there was a hole in the shower where somebody had removed the shower head. Well, I had just watched Freddy Kruegur and my older sisters told me that he was going to come through the hole and get me. I was scared to death to be in the bathroom by myself and somebody had to always sit with me while I was in there.
When I was little I believed that there was burgulars under my bed. I would jump into bed so that they couldn't grab my ankles and I would throw toys under there to try and hit them. Even now I leap into bed even though I know someone isnt gonna grab me.
my mom told me once what sun beams were. but i thought she meant all the dust you can see when light shines on it, so i called dust that you could see "sun beans"
When I was a young gal, I thought that people could see into the bathroom, by looking into the crack by the ground. I was so scared that people could see me, that I would take towels and push them into the crack.
I used to believe, after seeing a programme on TV, that spiders lived at the very bottom of my bed. I always slept with my feet tucked up under me, and as far up the bed as possible.
Funnily enough, years later, I would always wake up to find myself sleeping in the very bottom third of my bed.
i used to (still do) believe that unless ,wn in bed,i coverd mself up completely that monsters would be in my room ( normally the aliens from 'signs') and they would attack woteva part of me they could see. I scare myself stupid now trying to sleep and have to be completely covered up. It gets reall hot with your head under that duvet you know
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to this day, im still afraid of the shower if it has curtians. I wont even go into the bathroom if the shower's curtain is closed. And i wont open it...someone else has to...even if i have to go outside to ask some one to open it for me...thank you physo, for freaking me out about shower crutains for the rest of my life.