There was a Close-and-Play production of the House of Usher. It was quite frightening to us wee ones. When Madaline crawled from the grave and burst into the room she yelled, "Uhhhh" we ran from the room.
From that time on we called that monster the Uhh. Because I was the oldest, she lived under my bed at night. Eventually my brother and I killed the Uhh with a bomb. There was a toy called time bomb. It was basically a timer shaped like a bomb. You tossed it back and forth and if you had it when it went off, you lost. We wound up the bomb for three minutes, rolled it under my bed at midnight and ran for cover. Convinced she was dead, we slept soundly ever since.
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an atom bomb was a dragon in the sky.— Mazzkitten
- I used to think that aeroplanes were called "arrowplanes" because they were shaped like an arrow.— Eduardo
- I used to believe that the "Employees Only" room in the back of the store was where the employees lived. — KewlKid
- I used to think teachers lived at school, and slept there at night.— Stephanie
- Before I went to a planetarium for the first time, I thought it was just a room full of plants. Anon
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless