One day I answered the phone and the person on it told me he was the boogie man. It was my dad. I believed him, freaked out, and had a phone phobia for years.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- I used to think that my dog was the "BOOGIE MONSER" because he would always go and sleep under my bed!— ChristieGirl
- When i was about 3 or 4 i thought Gene Simmons was the Boogie Man.— miss13