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When I was young, I used to watch horror movies that came on Saturday afternoons, or occasionally Friday nights if I could stay awake that long. One of them had a woman look into a mirror and and evil witch/demon/whatever looked back at her (can't recall the details). Thirty-something years later, I still refuse to look into a mirror at night because it creeps me out! Oddly enough, though, I never fell prey to the "Bloody Mary" tale, nor do I remember believing there was another world on the other side of my mirror.

My granny had air vents in the floor of her house. She always told me never to drop anything in them or the house would blow up. Then one day I accientally dropped one of my toys in it, and I screamed and cries and tried in vain to retrieve it. The I told her what had happened saying we needed to get out of the house and all she said was "Well..maybe we'll be ok."

I used to believe that an an alligator lived under the bed I shared with my sister. It wasn't just any alligator but THE alligator that the dad flushed down the toilet in that 80's tv movie. To this day, if I wake up with any part of my body hanging over the edge of the bed, I feel a quick second of panic and I shudder. My sister had sworn this to be the truth when she told me this when she was about 9 and I was about 6.

When my sister was about five, she overheard my parents talking about the drafts in our house. I guess she must have misheard them, because when her teacher was teaching them about animals and mentioned giraffes, my sister insisted that she had a bunch of giraffes at home. She held to it steadfast, and couldn't be convinced otherwise.

I believed when I was a wee little lass, about 5 I guess that this wee little feller lived down me wee little bath tub drain. I used to be afraid to go near that wee little drain figurin that the wee man would hurt me.

I used to think that Freddie Kreuger was in my closet with his scary nails reaching out under the door crack to get me. I never had my bed next to the closet when I was little!

when i was young well um maybe i was 10
i used to think that there was a camera behide the mirror in the bathroom so when i got out of the shower i made shore that i had my towel on and got out of the way of the mirror so no-one could see me naked LOL im 12 now and think that what i thought was stupid ! ! ! !

When I was little, I belived that if I stayed in the bathtub when I pulled the drain, I could get sucked down into the sewers.
(I also pretended to myself there were sewer monsters that would eat feces and everything. Strangely enough that was inspired by a picture of the "boogie man" in a pango's pizza place.)

I also belived that on plane toliets I would get sucked down, or my organs would get sucked down. ...I went on a plane when I was little, too. I think I ended up peeing in the sink because I was so afraid!

Background: in my childhood room, there was a Gothic-style chandelier. It looked like the ones typically found in old Cathlic churches.

When I was a kid, I used to believe that the chandelier could grow pointy spikes which could then fall on me. As a result, I was scared s**tless to walk under it.

I used to believe that if you were caught alone with a TV that was turned off at night then it would try to manipulate you into "entering" it so that you can entertain others in some sort of magic TV land forever.

I also used to think that any sort of reflective surface I looked into was not reflecting my image, but what I would look like if I was a part of the television's world.

At the end of The Simpsons, there is a short scene after the credits with a bunch of people sitting in a room watching a movie. One of them says, "Shhh!" and then some music plays. This used the scare the HELL out of me. I thought I was watching people who were already trapped in the TV and had basically adapted to their new lives.

When I told my older sister this she marely reinforced these ideas. She also used to turn the volume WAY up when The Simpsons ended, then she would hold me down in front of the TV so that I could watch the people at the end...

I think I was 4 or 5 at the time.

I used to think the three blind mice from the nursery rhyme lived in the overflow drain hole in the sink, and I would stuff cheese and pour water down there so the poor things wouldn't starve!

when i was little 4 or 5 i believed that when you were looking in a mirror if you turned round fast enough you could see your reflection still turning what makes it worse i stood for ages trying it

Wheni was young my moms friends husband died and i used to alwayz think that he was in the bathtub waiting for him wife to c him from this day on b4 i take a shower i open the curtains real quick so i can "somethi g" b4 it gets away

i once thought there was a monster under my bed, that would bite off my leggs if i would leave it before it was light

i prefered to pee and poop the bad, then going to the bathroom




imagine that!

When I was little my Mom bought a little percolator that looked just like the big one they used on the stove. I thought that the little pot was the big pot's baby..When I asked my Mom, she told me it was true.

Whenever I would use a sink or any form of running water I always had to keep a body part or something else in the stream. I had this belief that there was a little man who lived under our house (and every other house) and he looked at all the water passing out of your house through a transparent pipe. He could always tell if the water was being used for something or if it was just going down the drain untouched.

I always believed that if he ever caught you wasting water something bad would happen and that he would be ok withunused water for a moment or two when you first turn on the tap or before you turn it off, but nothing more was allowed.

I still don't know what would happen if he caught you, but i never wanted to find out.

I watched Alfred Hitchcock episodes the old black and white ones when I was young about 6 or 7. I watched one where he talked about water torture where a person was strapped in a chair and water was let drip on his head until a hole ws eroded in the persons head. I used to think that standing under a running shower would erode my body and I would check for dents after every shower

As a child I'd go to sleep cuddled in a ball because I thought there were Lions and Tigers and Bears at the end of my bed, waiting to eat my feet. I grew up in South Africa, so it seemed a possible situation. One night I woke up at about 3am SCREAMING. My parents ran in to see what was wrong and I told them the Lions were trying to get me. It turned out to be our 4 new kittens who were playing under my covers!!