When I was younger, my grandmother use to tell me that I needed to come in before it got dark. Otherwise, the boogeyman would get me. There was a field behind her house and I use to imagine dark shadows racing toward me when it started to get dark to take me away and never be seen again.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- Dark brown Smarties were poisonous.Anon
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I belived carrots made you see in the dark Anon
- if you read the bible in the dark your eyes would pop out— chriistabelle
- When i was a kid, i thought that the tv changed channels by dark magic.— Anna