make-believe: monsters

My uncle once told me that a big cat lived in the movie theater and if you dangled your legs over the chair it would sneak up under you and suck on your legs till they fell off. I was scared of movie theaters for years.

After watching too many scary films, including the Amityville ones, I had to sleep with the covers over my head in case I heard any demonic voices or saw any red eyes in the dark. I still do that sometimes, although only so my ears are covered now.

I went downstairs one night, when my dad was asleep on the couch, and there was a furry stuffed animal, peach colored, next to his hand. I believed that he turned into a werewolf at night.

I used to believe that my friend was a zombie in third game, and would run away from him. I do not remember why I thought this, but we became friends again later.

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I used to believe there was a monster on my roof because everytime I threw a ball on the roof it would come back down to me. And get this, everytime my 19 year old cuz threw the ball, the monster got scared cuz my cuz was a baseball pitcher and he pitched real fast like so the ball went to the other side

I used to be one of those kids who thought inanimate objects came to life at night when no one else was around. Now, around Halloween, this became quite a problem. My mom used to go all out decorating the entire house with skeletons, a life-sized Dracula that sat at our dinner table, and even a replica of the killer from Scream. It didn't help that there was a giant fake spider web, complete with huge fake spider that was right outside my room (Spiders are my worst fear). Needless to say I never got much sleep for the entire month of October. Looking back on it now, I was also rather afraid of one of the Santa decorations that was put up around Christmastime. I was a rather troubled child.

When i was little my Dad told me every Halloween that Monkeys with huge butcher knives would come after little brunettes with blue eyes and cut their head off.. so every year i wouldn't go out past dark on Halloween.. untill i was about 9

I once had a dream that a huge orange monster, made from towel material, had chased me down the stairs at home and i shot him. For years after, i would run down the stairs with my hand pointing out behind me pretending it was a gun! I still get a weird feeling walking down the stairs now!

When I was very young, my grandparents bought me a Mother Goose lamp that would read to me at night while I fell asleep. I was convinced that as soon as the light went out and I was asleep, the lamp would attack me and attempt to peck my eyes out. What made me think this I do not know.

I used to believe (by making some hybrid of men in white coats and small green man from mars) that small men in white coats whould come to my house and load my into their mini ambulance to take me away if i was bad.

When I was younger I was always afraid to go outside because I thought that zombies would come out of the ground and chase after me I also thought that the monster Frankinstien would chase after me too.

(my brother told me)i used to beleve that if you jump on hay stacks you would get eatin by the humen eating monster so a was realy scared and they told me that they had a freind that got eatind by the monster

When I was little I had a few video's I used to love and one day my brother was so sick of them he broke one and left one on the radiator so the tape went all brown and crusy. When i found out I was really upset, and even more so when my brother told me that it was the boogie monster that did it, as his way of marking me so he could come back later and get me!

My brothers used to make me believe that the BORGER MONSTER would come for me every night. They would make me believe that it wants to pick my nose, and after it picks my nose I would bleed to death. They would make up little lies like onece when the gril brook, my brothers said that they say the "boger monster" standing on it last night looking into my window. I got so scared that this bogor moster was going to come and pick my nose to death, that I used to go to bed with clothespins on my nose, so the bogor monster couldn't pick it.

When I was about 5 or 6 during a slumber party with all my cousins someone told a story about "BLOODY BONES" being in the toilet waiting to get us all! I was terrified to use the toilet at night even when the light was on for years after!

I used to think that monsters could only come out in the dark. So when moving throughout the house when I was little I used to have to run forward and turn on the light ahead before running back and turning the one behind me off. This way I was always moving through the house in light. I never like turning off the one behind because I knew that evil monsters were slowly advancing behind me in the darkness. I was extremely happy when I had every light in the house on, and every dark cupboard was open ... though mum and dad were never too impressed! I wasn't too happy though when a lightbuld was blown!

Thinking about it now, every trip I made back then throughout the house would have been double the distance!

When I was young I had cousins in New Jersey and they would jack with us any chance they got.

I was told that if you go into the bathroom and turn off the lights(pitch black), spin around 3 times while saying "New Jersey devil", then look in the mirror you would see the New Jersey devil.

It's still kinda scary to do

A loooong time ago, I was probably 5-7 years old, I was very gullible. I used to believe that this huge robot would patrol our neighborhood and would watch for kids looking out the window. If it saw a kid, it would break into your house and come up to your room...and I didn't know what happened after that. I'd always spend nights peeking, juuuuust peeking, over the bottom of my window, watching for that boxy robot covered in lights.