The only way to get rid of the boogie monsters that lived in my closet was for my mom to get the broom and sweep them out of the closet, through the house, out the front door, and onto the sidewalk. All the while, she would need to yell, "Go away monsters!" or it wouldn't work.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- i used 2 believe when i left my closet door open at
night a skelleton would pop out and wave at me— bex - That captain hook lived in my closet on the very top shelf.Anon
- I seriously used to believe that Bert from Sesame Street lived in my closet and that he was going to kill me.— Liz
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- i used to believe that there was a pirate n my closet .— Natyyyy