When I was little an uncle told me that lots of little men with razor sharp teeth and long pointy fingernails lived under my bed and would get me if I got out of bed at night. I was so scared I spent most of my childhood jumping from my bed to my door to go to the bathroom at night and then running and leaping from my door back into bed.
It took my mom years to figure out why she always heard thumping from my room at night. It was me jumping in and out of bed.
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- i used 2 believe when i left my closet door open at
night a skelleton would pop out and wave at me— bex - I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
- i used to be scared of under my bed and thought that my cat became a monster only at night.— sumayah
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle