My sister convinced me that a monster was trying to claw it's way out of the little attic door in my bedroom. I would lay there at night with the covers pulled over my head hoping that it wouldn't see me.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I farted in bed, a monster would pop out through the covers and tickle me.Anon
- I thought the boogey monster was a monster that ate boogers at night in front of youAnon
- our grandfathers bald head was because our granmother pulled it out when she got mad at him— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- I used to believe that if i took the covers off at night i would freeze to death.— RockerGirl
- my sister used to tell me that manhole covers were direct portals to hell.— autumn
- I used to believe that the head part of a shirt was a monster and that it would eat you.— Taliyah