From about the age of 6-11 I was convinced that a terrible monster, the "red-eyed Hedgehog" lived in the space between my neighbour's fence and our garage. My next door neighbour who was a year or two older than me also believed there was a creature that lived down. Every day when we would climb the fence to each other's houses we would have to run really fast and clamber over the fence super quick so the Hedgehod wouldn't drag us down and eat us.
It took us a long time to get brave enough to go back to each other's houses at night time and often we'd ring our parents and ask them to pick us up.
By about the age of 10 I decided that I had to proove the existance of the red-eyed Hedgehog to my parents, so I set a trap. I got a cat carry cage, tipped it on its side and put a stick up to support the cage lid and then filled the plastic base of the cage with chocolate chips. I was upset to discover the next day that the chocolate chips were half gone and the damned Hedgehog had gotten away. :(
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God was a hedgehog!!! Silly I know, but I was about 6!— Amy-Jo
- I used to believe that Knuckles (from Sonic the Hedgehog) was an enchilada.Anon
- My sister told me as a child that ravioli was 'hedgehog' meat.
Still can't eat it today.......— Sal Myers - On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- I believed for a long time that brown cows gave chocolate milk!— Evil Mom