I was terrified that if I sat on the edge of my bed, a hand from underneath would snatch out and grab my ankle. I used to leap to safety in the morning.
To this day I sleep in a captain's bed.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I used to think God was Captain Planet.Anon
- I used to think that God didnt have ankle because he didn't need them as he could float.— lucyloop
- I used to believe that the Captain's Log in Star Trek, was really a log— Anna
- I was a superhero named Captain Stupid.— Chr1s