When I was five, my mom would always tell my brother and I that if we weren't good for the babysitter, a Boogie Man would get us. She said it stayed in the walls and watched us.
One night I was bad at the babysitters, I bit my brother. She told me I was a really naughty girl.
As I slept that night, I woke up and saw a Green Head poking out of the wall. (I didn't realize It was just part of a bad dream).
I asked all the kids in Kindergarten if they had ever seen the Boogie Monster.
They all said NO. So for another five years I was convinced I was the worlds most rotten kid. I wouldn't do anything wrong. I wanted to be a good kid, so the Boogie Man would not come back.
Imagine the horror when I heard my mother tell my brother there was no such thing. That it was made up to scare kids.
To this day my mother does not know what she did to me, with her little boogie man story.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- i used to think that my dad turned into the boogie monster at night if i picked my nose before i went to bed— hollie
- I used to beleive that if I picked my nose the boogie monster would visit me in the night + torture me— gingalinga
- I thought the Boogie Man was made of boogers-all green and slimy.— Boo
- I used to believe that the boogie man would come and get me if I didn't listen to my parents.Anon
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- I used to think that my dog was the "BOOGIE MONSER" because he would always go and sleep under my bed!— ChristieGirl