when i was little i got my sisters matress to sleep on and she got a new one and i didnt like hers so id sleep on the ground and my mom didnt like it so she said that before we moved into the house this girl named sally got attacked by sallygeters during a sleep over cuz she slept on the floor and to make things worse they said i slept in the same room she died in. that night i slept on my bed and i woul have to run from the door and jump on just in case a sallygetter was fiding under my bed.
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When I was around 6-7 I had turned my closet into my personal reading sanctuary. I used it daily for about a week when my brother informed me that when our house was built (1 year earlier), a worker had died, and they had buried him in the back wall of my closet. I was convinced there was a gooey corpse there for years and would pile up my clothes and toys against the door every night so he couldn't come alive and get me. Brothers can be such jerks...
I don't have any professional pictures of myself between the ages of two and four, because I thought that the camera was a gun and that it would literally "shoot" me
When I was young, my brothers would take the grill off of the heating vent and stick their foot in it... They'd start screaming "the suckin things got me! The suckin things got me!" and I would scream and cry because I really thought they were being hurt. I was also afraid of vacuum cleaners.
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I used to believe that the handles of toothbrushes were made out of hippo teeth. I know this originated in Kindergarten, but I don't know how.
When I was a kid I used to believe in the monsters under my bed. I thought I would be smarter than them and place my bed directly on the floor. I still have my bed that way at 24.
I used to see those tags on pillows and mattresses that said "Under penalty of law this tag is only to be removed by the consumer" and I thought it meant you would go to jail if you took off the tag yourself instead of taking it to a place where I imagined a guy with a pair of scissors at a 'Consumer' office cutting them off. My dad nearly fell over laughing when I explained it to him this way after freaking out when I saw him cut the tag off a new pillow.
I used to believe that there was an imaginary hole beside my bed that went straight to Hell. I was terrified that one morning I would wake up and fall down this hole and end up in Hell. Being raised Baptist didn't help matters lol
My sister used to hate when i had my feet out of the blanket, so one night she said "if you keep your feet out of the blanket while you sleep, leprachans will come and eat your toes!"
Ever since then, my feet have been under the blanket covers, even on the hottest of nights
When i was a kid, my mother told me that if you stepped on a sliver of glass, even a tiny one, it would get into your blood stream, flow into your heart, and kill you.
Broken glass still freaks me out, and if i break something glass, i clean the entire room top to bottom.
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I used to believe…
a giant spider lived under the landing to the stairs leading down to my basement
There is this old fashion desk/bookcase who's legs look like feet. So when I was a little kid I thought that if I ever went near it, it would start chasing me and eat me or something. And unfortuanatly, it was by my bathroom so whenever I needed to go, I had to get my mom or dad to watch and protect me from the desk. Haha.
when i was a kid and i would go over to my cousins . he had a big fence in his backhard and we thought mean indians lived there and if we got to close to the fence they would kidnap us
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When I was 7 I used to check my closet and under the bed to see if any robbers were hiding in there before I went to sleep.
When I was about 7 I stared at my reflection for minutes to see if it would jump out and try to scare me.
Another time I tried to have a staring contest with my reflection. Soon I found out it always ended in a tie.
I used to think everything in the bathroom came to life when I wasn't looking and "stood still" when I was.
Sometimes I would turn around really fast to try and "catch them" walking around.
I used to have this belief that if I let my feet hang over the side of the bed while I slept that gnomes under the bed would cut off a toe to keep for their collection.
When i was younger i used to think that there was a boogyman under my bed and would grab my ankles, i thought this b/c of the Adams family. So once my sis. crawled under my bed and tried to grab my ankles. so i jumped on my bed andthrough a actioon figure under my bed and broke my sisters noes and concored my fear.
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I used to believe, until about a year ago, that duct tape was really DUCK tape! Those poor, poor, ducks!
when i was about 3 or 4 my sister would tell me if u go in the bathroom with the lights off look in the mirror spin around 3 times and say candyman candyman a face would appear in the mirror and scratch ur face up.