monsters

I always hated turning off the lights before I went upstairs. I imagined things coming out of the dark behind me, coming to get me. Needless to say, I always sprinted up the stairs so they couldn't get me. I am 26 years old, I know there is nothing behind me, but I still sprint up the stairs at night after I turn the lights out.

Bridget

I never had imaginary friends growing up, even though I was an only child until I was 9. However, I had a couple of things that are still with me as an adult...don't ask me why. I was a child that grew up sleepign on her parent's bed until I was about 10 years old. Therefore, I feared sleepign or beign by myself. I would have to check out every corner and closet and open space to make sure no killers (or Freddy or Jason) were around. Still have nightmares aobut it, and have to sleep either by someone, close to someone, or with the lights and TV on (if alone). I just can't handle it. The second one is actually kind of funny. Afetr seeing JAWS, I have always been afraid that a shark would attack me. So, I still can't swim in a pool by myslef or even come near a pool drain without thinking Jaws is in there. And for the longest time I used to think a snake or an eel or some kind of wormy creature would come out from the shower drain or toilet and nip me in the behind.

valeriekooka

In elementary school, the Mary Worth story was popular( turn out the lights, hold a candle, and chant in front of a mirror, "I believe in Mary Worth"; her ghost was supposed to appear in the mirror. Even now, I can't look in a mirror when the lights are out!!

Anon

I had a friend who had a realy big garden (Well it was big to me at that time). We would always go out to the garden to pick strawberries but there was a hole in the ground next to the strawberries covered with wood. We used to believe there was a wolf there that was mad. We thought that it was mad because it didn't have any friends.

tinkerbell

I used to believe that there was a monster under my bed and when i went to bed, i would jump onto it so i didn't have to put my feet near it.

Anon

I was pretty sure monsters were real because once I slipped from a nightmare where monsters were taunting me and I was just wrapped up in the blanket and eventually I made a run for it and got my mum and was confused that they were gone when I came back with her.

Another time I was looking at a night light falling asleep and a face came up and talked to me, it reinforced my belief. So far I haven't been proved incorrect though =p.

Dave

I used to believe that there were mosters who lived in the vents and if I stepped on the floor in the dark they would be able to get me. This belief was the result of a recurring nightmare I had when I was little and even though I know it's silly now I still have to have the lamp beside my ben on until I'm safely off the floor.

Maya

My mom use to tell me when I was about 4 if I didn't go to bed their was a big lion in the living room that would come and get me and it would eat me or put me in a adoption home

LeeAnn

I belived all through my childhood (up to 15) years that monsters could only eat me if I was awake,they hid under my bed and anytime they thought I moved they would come up to see if I was awake. This led to many wet beds as I woke up when I had to pee, but I was to scared that if I moved the monsters would come.

Eve

When I was younger I really believed that Unicorns existed and they were just very rare. I actually remember when I found out that they didn't and the realisation that I would never ever see one in real life was very upsetting!!

Emma

My Stepmother led me to believe, at the young age of 6, that if I did not finish my dinner the "Sleastacks" from "Land of The Lost" would come get me. Talk about nightmares.... :)

Jenn

I used to believe that whenever i was on my staircase and i turned the light off, there was a big sort of monster/rat thing in the washing machine room that was on the stairs, so i'd run down the stairs as fast as i could.

psychologically-damaged child

when i was around 7 or 8, i REALLY REALLY thot there was a gorilla in my bedroom wall, and i was especially scared because my brother had made a small hole in the wall, so now i thot they could watch me, and when i wasnt looking the gorillaz would come out to eat me! i was really scared, like actually terrified to go to bed..

pringlez-CAT

whenever i first heard of the boogie man, i was in the front yard of my cousins house. i imaginined this man covered in green boogers (gross) running across the street with a brown bag. i dont remember how i got that one straight...

weird imagination

I always thought that when the trees leaning against the window at night were people trying to get me. I watched way too many horror movies. Old habits die hard.

Anon

i was about 5 years old. One time i was at Sonny's and i was crying. well, my mom got really mad and sayed that if i dont stop crying, this cheese grater that looked like a bird with a cage for a body, named The Crybaby Eater would come out and eat me and keep me in its cage forever for eeryone to see i was a crybaby. well, i stopped crying and believed that little tale till i was 10!!!!

Rachael Depp

When I was five or six, I used to think there was a monster under our computer desk- I never played any computer games until I was seven!

Lisa

When i was little and my parents would watch scary movies, i was always afraid that they would come out of the TV and drag me back into the movie with them. So i would hide under the covers and try to lay really flat, so they couldn't see me. Of course now, I know this is not true, but I still fall asleep under the covers out of habit.

Patrik

When I was in 1st grade I hated cleaning up the usual mess on the floor at the end of the day so I often thought to myself that it wasn't our fault. Mean "Pigs" lived in the cealing and threw trash and paper scraps on the floor during the day.

Rose

When i was about five i had a really scary dream i thought this charactor from a video game came turned into an aligator and was swimming in my backyard that turned into a lake he ate my flesh off the bone and my shoe. Then i woke up i checked to see if my shoe was still there then i slept with my shoes in my room for about 3 months

Zach