When I was about 10 I stayed up late one night to watch the TV premier of American Werewolf In London. By the time it got to the dream sequence of him chasing through the forest I was so terrified I turned off the TV and legged it to cower under the covers. To this day I am unable to walk through a wood on my own without getting the screaming heebies, even though it's 25 years later and it's one of my favourite films.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- i used to think that i was a werewolf and that at night i played poker with the grim reaper— mike
- up until about 6 years ago i thought everton was in london!Anon
- I used to believe that if i took the covers off at night i would freeze to death.— RockerGirl
- I used to be terrified of the numbers 18 and 19. I think I thought that when you turned 18 or 19, you die.— Emmy
- i used to think "black dog" by led zeppelin started out like, "big-legged momma, see the way you moo."— ginny
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay