My mum told me that the sock monster took odd socks away. I thought it was a real two legged monster made out of socks with a big sock for a head (shaped like a horse's head) and that it lived in the cupboard above the boiler. The scary part was that it had no eyes or mouth...
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid my dad told me that in a package of socks there was a right sock and a left sock.— Christina
- I used to believe that the head part of a shirt was a monster and that it would eat you.— Taliyah
- When I was little, my mom told me that if I slept with socks on they would eat me alive.— Cindy
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha
- My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes. Anon
- I thought the boogey monster was a monster that ate boogers at night in front of youAnon