I thought the boggie man only came when you were bad.
When I was ill, I was always frightened of him. It is only now as a grown up, I realise it was my mums way of keepingme in bed. Very sad.
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- First I believed that my parents were brother and sister. Then I thought that my dad was also my mums dad. — Rainbow
- I thought grown ups were born grown ups.— mea
- Once I thought these two teenagers who used to wash my mums car lived in our attic. Hahaha!— Roxanne
- I used to believe that grown-ups were born "grown up" and that I would stay a little kid forever.— Still A Kid
- Phil Collins song "I missed again" - I thought it was "I pis*ed again" - didn't realise he was an alcoholic?!Anon
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman