under my bed

When I was little I used to think there were monsters under my bed. I stopped believing it quickly though but once night when I was 8 I watched Nightmare On Elm Street with my brothers and they said that Freddie was going to come from underneathe my bed and kill me. I told then that he was make believe and stormed off. Later that night I guess one of them snuck underneath my bed. He started to grunt, and then shake the bed a little bit, and then really rocked the bed and then he pulled the blankets and me underneathe the bed....I peed all over the place. I had to sleep in the bed with my parents for 3 monthes. I get scared just thinking about that night.

Kitty

When i was a lot younger i thought that there were creatures under my bed that would get me if i stray from my bed during the night, so i always laid dead center of the bed never to venture out to the open spaces of my room.

Chris Beningo

When I was eight I believed that everything you see in tv programmes were real-so when I was flicking through channels and saw a girl grabbing her bedroom door as she was being sucked under the bed I blocked the space under my bed so the "boogie man " wouldn't get me!!

Izzy

When I was very young I used to sleep in a sleeping bag on top my bed underneather the sheets though. I was always wondering where my feet were. I could feel strange things down there. Every time I looked I couldn't see anything because it was so dark down there.

One time something pinched my toe. (it was the zipper but I didn't know that.)

One day I had to find out, so crawled down to the bottom of my sleeping bag. Boy was I surprised when I got stuck. I thought something had grabbed me and I start yelling and screaming... and my dad had to come and rescue me.

Justynn Tyme

I used to believe that at night, a man came through a trap door under my bed and waited for me to fall asleep so he could reach up and grab me. I always put my teddy bear in bed next to me and if I would wake up the next morning with the teddy bear on the floor (which it always was because I would roll over and it would fall off) then I would know that the man tried to grab me but got the teddy bear instead.

Bethi

I used to believe that my ceiling had giant razor blades hidden in it. They would come down around the four sides of my bed while I was sleeping and any body part that hung over the bed would get chopped off. I have no clue why I thought this, I guess I just had a really active imagination.

Jackie

When I was about 13, I watched way too many horror movies, and for some reason I used to think that Jason fron the Friday the 13th movies, Michael Myers from the Halloween series, and Alfred Hitchcock were hiding in my room and would "get" me if I didn't turn on the light when I went in. This was made worse by the fact that I didn't have an overhead light in my room and had to walk all the way over to the lamp next to my bed and would close my eyes until I turned it on, convinced that they couldn't get me if I couldn't see them.
For some reason, I was never scared of Freddy Krueger.

Anon

when I was 4, I used to believe every night when I went to bed, that robbers, kidnappers, and murderers were waiting under my bed for me. So I believed that if I yelled and talked to them, "I know you're under there! Go away!" and all sorts of gibberish, that they'd believe they were found out and would have to leave.

kimberlee

I used to believe an evil crocodile lived under my bed and that once the light was off, if I put an arm or a leg over the side of the bed, it would leap out from underneath and bite them off.

kester

i used believe that when i went to sleep in the dark ,4 strange men would crawl out from under my bed andspin it round and round when i had my eyes closed,or open a magic hatch under my bed andfly it round the middle of the earth,and if i opened my eyes they would hide and id just fall to my death!

cath

My brother and I shared a bunk bed. He was older so he got the top bunk. I envied him because I thought that the Hamburglar was hiding under my bed. I had nightmares of the Hamburgler tickling me, and hitting me because I'd laugh at him. I knew laughing at him would make him mad, but I couldn't help it, and he'd get mad.
It sucked.

Stephen

I used to believe that tiny men came to my bed at night and would cut off my feet unless i kept the covers tight tucked under my body. to this day i still sleep like that.

Ruth

When I was about 2-3 my mom told me that as long as I was under my covers that no monsters could get me. I believed her and I still feel more comfortable all covered up.

Anon

I was always terrified of spiders, and when the lights went out I was convinced that they would crawl up under the sheets and amass at the foot of the bed. So I slept curled up in a tight ball, never straightening my legs for fear they'd get me.

Mich

when i was younger i used to think there was an old skiny man with silver skin and huge white eyes that never blinked under my bed that would grab me. to this day i take a running jump to get into bed!

toria(uk)

I used to think that tigers would chew my limbs off while i was sleeping if any part of them was sticking out from under the bed clothes. So i would tuck the sheets and blankets under my body, and sleep on my back - without moving - all night. This continued residually until i was 28 or so... and now i can occasionally risk letting an arm or leg stick out when its really hot...

Deborah

i used to believe that there was ants and maggots at the bottom of my bed and so i slept on the floor until i was about 5

alex

When I was a little kid I believed that there always was a monster under my bed who's going to eat my shoes if I left them on the floor. So every night I put my shoes on the table so that the monster could not eat it. Until age of five or so...

Janneke

I used to think that a clown lived under my bed and tried to eat me while i was asleep

Anon

When I was five I was terrified that there was a big letter Z under by bed. I had a dream that I looked under my bed, and there was a big, plushy-looking letter Z there, and when I saw it it went, "Zzzzzzzz". Thereafter for a time I was afraid to look under my bed, in case the Z was there and it buzzed at me again.

Catherine