We used to believe that the big fat red-eyed monster would come and eat us when we were asleep. One night we woke our mum and dad up with screaming because we thought we were being eaten! This was when we were 4 and for years afterwards we would sit up on our bunk beds all night clutching each other because of the red-eyed monster( we are twins).
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I thought the boogey monster was a monster that ate boogers at night in front of youAnon
- i used to be scared of under my bed and thought that my cat became a monster only at night.— sumayah
- When I was little I believed that a night a monster will came and kill me.❤️🥺— @natalia_rd_
- i used to think that my dad turned into the boogie monster at night if i picked my nose before i went to bed— hollie
- I used to beleive that if I picked my nose the boogie monster would visit me in the night + torture me— gingalinga
- I used to believe that if I went down the stairs slowly a red eyed skeleton would come and run after me.— Melly2bee