When I was little I had a few video's I used to love and one day my brother was so sick of them he broke one and left one on the radiator so the tape went all brown and crusy. When i found out I was really upset, and even more so when my brother told me that it was the boogie monster that did it, as his way of marking me so he could come back later and get me!
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 watched a Michael Jackson music video with my brother, and we were convinced he was a woman.— Adrian
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - I used to beleive that if I picked my nose the boogie monster would visit me in the night + torture me— gingalinga
- My partner thought women used the brown packing tape as wax strips.— Helen
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c.