Around the Summer campfire the counselors told us that an "animal/man" was loose in the woods.
Shortly after we fell asleep on the night we slept under the stars, from back in the woods I could hear the "animal/man" screaming,
"I want one kid, just one kid".
The counselors ran to protect us and even started wrestling in the shadows with what truly looked like an "animal/man." They chased it away from our campsite and assured us we would be ok the rest of the night.
Later that night I was awaken by a "growling sound". I was paralyzied with fear knowing that the "animal man" was just a few feet away. I took what seemed like an eternity to realize that the kid next to me was just snoring.
When I returned next summer to the camp I found out that "Animal/man was a camp counselor in a wolf-suit.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)— Sylwia - I used to believe an artichoke was an animal and we only ate its heart. — Laura
- I used to believe that an oilskin actually came from an animal called an Oil.....— Sally
- I used to believe that if you swallowed your gum that you would crumble up and smell like a dead animal !!!!— jordan
- I used to believe that people that are mascots or in big animal suits were serial killers— Amanda