A lot of people were scared of the monster under the bed. Myself, I was specifically scared of this monster I read about in a children's book called the Body, which for some reason sounded really plausible to me. The Body was a like a human being, but it had no bones. At night, it would slither along the floor, and if it saw your foot hanging out from under the blankets, it would grab and suck out all your bones through your toes - and you would become the next Body.
My solution was to make sure my blanket was always tucked under my feet when I slept so the Body couldn't get my foot. To this day, I have trouble falling asleep if I don't have a blanket tucked all around my feet.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- Broken bones meant that your arm or leg was separated from your body.— Kelly Hanson
- I used to think that instead of bones and blood and tissue that you body was made up of tuna.— m.n
- I used to believe that monsters couldnt find me or hurt me if my whole body where under my blanket— Scared shitless
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy
- I used to believe that a 'soul' was an organ of the human body, such as a kidney or lung. — Grace