My mom forced me to watch those Nightmare on Elm Street movies when I was 5 and it scared me to death. Inspired by a sceen in the movie, I was afraid to take a shower/bath for I feared that Freddy would pop out of the shadows and slit my throat.
A childhood belief about films
others believed things like this
- I used to believe the shadows on the moon were actually spacemen casting shadows on the ground.— Perry
- My sister told me that jellyfish came out of the shower and sting you to death.— Nick (Alex's brother)
- I used to be afraid of moving my wrists incase i snapped my veins and bled to death.— Tender veins
- I thought that psychological torture involved forcing people to watch really sad movies!— Elviessa
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky