when i was like 3 or 4 i would never take a shower cuz i always looked up at the shower head when it was on and i thought the water coming down would drown me
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When I was little, I thought the banging noise coming from the pipes in my bathroom were little men cleaning them out.
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When I was younger my brother would chase me around with the vacuum cleaner, threatening me that it could eat me whole.
To this day, I still believe him.
My sister was haunted by the belief that a fox would take her and eat her. She always looked under her bed before she jumped all the way from the door and right into the bed (several meters! LOL!) Then, safe in bed, she bent over to check again under the bed.
Her cousin told her that foxes even could climb walls, so she had to stop sleeping with her window open.
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i used to believe that i would get eaten by a shark if i stood on my bedroom carpet because it was blue like the sea!
I used to believe there was a little man in the fridge who turned the light on when you opened the door
When i was about 6 my mom used to tell me and my sis that the carpet fresh she would put on the carpet before she would vaccum would burn our feet if we walked on it. so we woudl have to sit on the couch for a hr untill she vaccumed.
I used to believe the furnace in our basement was really a (scary) robot that came to life at night.
Sometimes I would stand on the stairs and look at it trying to catch it moving.
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When my parents added a crawl space in our basement i had the idea that there was an old guy named Bob living in it
when i was young i thought that when they would liquidate a house, they would take a giant magnifying glass and melt the house. then they would put the house juice in a jar and put it on a shelf somewhere.
My mom went back to work when I was in grade 5 and it was scary for us kids back then. We had to come into an empty house every day after school. If I was the first one home, I'd check all the closets, under the beds, and even behind the shower curtain to make sure strangers weren't lurking there. Why I thought people would hide in the tub is beyond me!
At my grandma's house in the bathroom, there's a jacuzzi tub, and on either wall at it's ends, there are two big mirrors. And you know when there are two mirrors facing eachother, the reflection goes on and on. When I was little, I thought it was a long passage way to another world where if I got to the end of it, I'd come out dressed as a princess and have all the things I wanted.
I was 7 when the Oklahoma city bombing happened and I saw it on the news alot. For about a month I was afraid to leave the house because I thought someone would bomb it when I was gone. Also, I think it was around the same time, after watching Jurassic Park I kept expecting a dinosaur to bite the roof off of my bedroom whie I was asleep (After all, the movie proved that we could clone dinosaurs now - or so I thought - It was only a matter of time till they escaped and found my house!)
i had a red dress from some old lady, and it was velvet it was on the door of the closet, and it hung there. i don't know what happened, but i thought one day that it was a witch dress. you know how when you touch that fabric, and move your hand upwards on it, it feels prickly, but when you move ity the opposite way, its smooth?yeah, i thought the prickly part was evil, and if there was a spot that was on the prickly side on the dress while wearing it, i'd have evil around me. so i smoothed it out every single time i wore it... took me FOREVER.
when i was little, we had a neigbor; an old man with a weird hat he'd always wear. he was always a bit scary. our wall in the bathroom was tile. all the tiles had the exact same drawing thing on it; it was peach-ish with squiggly lines; no "picture" but im my imagination, there was an outline of that man & his hat. only i could see it, and my parents never knew why, but i was always scared to go to the bathroom or take a shower, because i thought he was watching me.
I used to believe that Children's Aid was watching our house would come take me from my parents because I had to mow the HUGE lawn. It was a riding mower and I wanted to do it so I made sure I always smiled while driving the mower so "those people watching me" would know I was happy and not being forced.
When I was younger my mom used to tell me a little man named Ed lived under our sink and that we were feeding him whenever we pour food down the drain and to never put our hands down there because he would mistake it for food. It wasn't until I was 10/11 I realized it was just the garbage disposal.
When I was little I used to think that they nails in my grandparents deck were slivers so whenever we would eat outside or sit around on their deck I refused to and I would sit inside.
I used to believe that the electrical socket in the basement could be used like a lock, and using a key you could open a secret passage. Needless to say that was one of my near death experiences.
I used to believe that there was a scary version of Pee Wee Herman under my bed who would pull me under with huge spider-like arms and tickle me till I died. (I am EXTREMELY ticklish)