After seeing the movie "Ernest Scared Stupid", my sister and I believed there were trolls living in our basement. So, just like in the movie, we went downstairs with cartons of milk in case we ran into a troll. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Ernest used milk to kill the trolls in the movie!)
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When my cousin was young, I convinced him that a pointy spear from a BBQ grill set was actually a sword, and that I stole it from Captain Hook. Fortunately for my cousin, he's not as gullabe today.
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When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.
there were little firemen under the bed that would chop off your hands & feet if they hung over the bed while you were asleep
About 40 years ago, an adult cousin told me that ghosts lived in your closets. To this day I cannot sleep with a closet door open!
When I was around 4 years old, my father took me to the show to see "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and for years after that I thought there was an octopus living under my bed so I would have to take a flying leap to get in and out of my bed so the octopus wouldn't grab my ankle and pull me in!
At the age of 3 or 4, I remember my Dad looking up towards the roof at wasp nests under the eaves. He would complain about the "wasps being back and having the run of the house". I thought wasps were little gnome or elf like creatures that lived on the roof. I sat outside for hours looking up in an effort to catch a glimpse of them.
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Bouncing on my bed and watching houses through the window I was sure they were literally bouncing with me.
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I thought neighbours from the upper floor were holding our lamps all the time and that's why they were hanging from the ceiling and not falling down.
For about a week when i was perhaps 8, i believed there was a mummy (the ancient egyptian bandanged type) in my wardrobe. I avoided opening the wardrobe until i absolutely had to, then i got my sister (2 years younger then me) to open it for me! She probably wondered why i couldnt open it myself...
When I was little I thought that every electronic and mechanical device had a secret explosive switch where if you turned the nob on the TV just so or jiggled the handle on the faucet to much to the right "BOOM". Needless to say I refused to run my own bath until I was 11 and I ended up playing outside a lot.
Well, I was a very strange child. For some reason I was terrified of sleeping with my legs uncurled because the Alligators that inexplicably lived at the end of my bed would BITE OFF MY TOES!
Oh, and I had a strange phobia of windshield wipers, screaming uncontrollably whenever they were on. Yeah.. I was weird
When I was younger my brother and I were absolutely convinced that there was some guy called Snakehead living in our basement! He had a human body but his head was a snake and he had big muscley arms!! We knew this because we would sit around on the stairs waiting for him to appear and then run upstairs screaming! It wasnt until a few years later when we realized that this Snakehead guy was really a shadow of our dads golf bag with a golf club sticking out of it.
I used to belive that if you stood next to a microwave while it was running that you would shink and I was so anxious to be tall that I would never go near it. Just out of habbit, I still feel weird near them.
When I was a little girl, our bedrooms on the second floor, my sister who is 7 years older than me told me that there was a gremlin living under her bed. I think she was trying to keep me out of her room. Anyway I stopped believing that after a while and she went off to college. I then took over her room so I didn't have to share a room. No problem, no monsters. Until one day I looked out the window into the darkness and saw an animal staring in at me. ON THE SECOND FLOOR! I was so scared I covered myself from head to toe and refused to look out unless it was actually true. Only the next day did I remember that a part of the roof is right below my new bedroom window, so it was rational that a cat could try to get back into our house from the 2nd floor.
WHEN I WAS A BABY I USED TO BELIEVE THAT THE BOOGIEMAN LIVED IN THE DARKNESS AND UNDER MI BED
There was a custard well in my back garden
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That The Incredible Hulk lived in my basement.
there was always a monster under my bed when i was little (well so i thought) but one dayi was so brave and poke my head down to check if there really was a monster there and when i finally got the gutz to do so there was no monster! i checked another time and again no monster. i was so proud of myself for facing my fears and never thought of the monster ever again.
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When i was younger i uses to believe that when things got lost they were sucked into the carpet and turned up later when the carpet decided to put them back