Two things that haunted me in my childhood weree the boogie man and the sand man and whenever I was playing in the sand box I saw my friends picking their noses so I kept on begging them not to so the sand man and the boogie man would not come and haunt us at night.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- i used to think salt was made of sand— hibiscus
- When my daughter was 3, she saw a cat using a litter box. She thought it was building a sand castle.— Debbie the Bad Swimmer
- When i was 6 years old i had a dog named Sandy. And i thought she was made of Sand.— Billy Bob Joe
- in sting's / the police's song ''roxanne''. I thaught that it was ''rock sand''— wacko zacho
- I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon
- 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