When I was young, I had a room that was high off the ground, and the window ledge was about ten feet from the ground. I used to think that skeletons were hanging by their finger tips outside the window and as soon as I fell asleep they would climb in to take my skin. I always used to open the window before bed and then throw things at the bottom of it to try and hit their fingers to break their grip. I don't know what started this, but it persisted until I was nine.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that grown-ups got scared because they were so high off the ground.— Sammy
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- My mom used to tell us kids that if you put your arm out of the car window,that it would fall off.— Kathy G.
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- I used to believe that the moon lived on top of our house because I could always see it from the window.— Classic NYer
- When I was little I thought a widow was someone who stares at you through a windowAnon