under my bed

When I was about 6, I saw JAWS at the drive-in. Well, actually I spent most of it hiding in the back seat of the car telling my aunt and her boyfriend, "Tell me when the scary part's over!" When I got home and was getting ready for bed, I was very careful where I stepped, because I was afraid part of the floor would suddenly open up like a trap door and there would be a shark in a tank of water down there.

Anon

this isn't really under the bed so much as beside it. when i was younger my bed was pushed against one wall and until I was about 5 i was too afraid to sleep facing the wall because i thought a little tiny train conductor lived in the crack between my bed and the wall and that he would come get me and take me somewhere bad in his train. haha i still rmeeber teh first night i slept facing the wall and realized no conductor lived there...

stephanie

this one isn't what i believed but what i got my cousin and sister to believe
we had just watched that movie about monsters under the bed called Little Monsters and we went to bed after that. so i was sitting on my bed and we were talking about the movie and all the sudden i threw myself on the floor and made it seem like someone sucked my under my bed! i started screaming and yelling until they pulled my out lol they were scared of under beds for a long time after that!

Lizz

I used to think an aligator lived under my bed and if my hands or feet hung down, it would nibble on them.

Anon

I used to believe that if you didn't go to sleep before the "tooth fairy" came that she would put a spell on you so that your teeth would fall out, and i also had a belief that my feet would need to be covered in bed so that the monsters under my bed couldn't eat them .. lol I still wake up and put my covers over them so the memory still stick =)

Monster

I had a friend who told me that there was an evil monster under his bed that would eat me if I touched the floor. After promising that it would follow me home should I ever tell anyone about it, he proceeded to "fall" on his floor and yelled "IT'S GOT ME!!!" Needless to say, I ran downstairs screaming and told my dad right away. For months afterward, I was scared to walk on my bedroom floor, especially at night.

Anon

I used to sleep on the top bunk of a bunk bed when I was about 5 or 6. After seeing the "children’s" film ET I convinced myself that he was on the bottom bunk and if I ever looked down he would be there staring back.

It scared the crap out of me and never watched the film for years, which made it worse cos I couldn't remember what he looked like, so I imagined him as this really scary monster. I finally plucked up the courage to watch the film when I was 16!
I’m still not that keen on him!

Dan Thwaites

I used to believe that the Boogey Man lived under my bed and would chop of any part of my body that hung over the side of the bed at night. I always made sure everything, toes, fingertips and hair, were safely ON the bed before I went to sleep.

Still has all her toes

I used to believe that there was a poop monster under my bed and whenever I woke up with a bad taste in my mouth I thought that the monster poop in my mouth when I was sleeping.

Lama From Hell

When I was really young I believed that Snuffleuphagus (from Sesame Street) lived under my bed. He was benevolent and kept me safe from marauding monsters.

Unfortunately when I was 5 we moved to Australia and 'Snuffy' didn't come with us.

Molly

when i was little, i was convinced that a big mean biker dude lived under the right side of my bed and watched me and kracked his knuckles when i slept. i never slept on my right side had a fear that if i woke up, this big mean smelly biker dude would see me,throw me on the back of his Harley-davidson and take me away. i'm 15,and in a new room from my childhood one, but i still have a habit of sleeping on my left side. yeah, i'm weird.

JC

i used to believe jaws lived under my bed.

Anon

When i was about 5 my ceiling fan made a squeeking sound and i used to think it was the mice squeeking and playing under my bed!!!lol

ERicka Richardson

I used to belive that E.T. lived under my bed. (You know, from the movie.) For as long as I had that bed, I couldn't sleep on the side that I saw him on.

Amanda

When I was about 6 I used to beilieve that when I went to bed if I had any part of my body (apart from my head) out of the duvet, they would be taken off during the night! Lost a lot of sleep over that!

Stef

When I was little I used to believe that crocodiles lived underneath my bed. I used to have re-occuring dreams of being pulled out of my bed and not being able to get up off the floor and so just lay waiting for the crocodiles to get me! I always used to jump onto my bed from about a metre away just in case!

Natasha

I used to believe that the monsters in the dark couldn't get me only if I had one teddy bear on each side of me.

Madb

when i was little i used to believe the boogie man would come up from under my bed and eat me

~*JaZz~*

when i was younger i used to believe that if i was scared while lseeping i could hide under my blanket and the monsters couldnt see me...but eventually i would get really hot and forget what i was scared of in the first place

Courtney

when i was little i thought there were snakes circling around my bed at night and they would eat me if i got out of bed. i also thought that they would eat my feet if they were hanging off of the bed.

Erica