Monsters in your room......

I was always afraid to have arms or legs outside of the covers. I thought something would come eat them. To this day, I sleep with blankets tucked up around my arms and legs.

Ok, so the other day I used one of those sleep apps. This app tracks everything while you sleep, when you move, how long you sleep, and noises.......... So after a couple of days my son comes into my bedroom in the middle of the night and starts talking. In the morning I check the app and can hear everything he said.

Now comes the freaky part.... After that I kept using it, but didn't check the sound everyday. Until one day when I was having a cigarette outside our house... I started listening and heard water droplets falling, I also heard a woman's voice saying 'Ahhhhhhh' and 'Ohhhhhhh'. It wasn't raining that night and I don't have any other woman in my household. It definately wasn't my voice or my son's... I played it to my bf who doesn't believe in ghosts and it freaked even him out!

From then on every time after I switch of the light in our bedroom I jump straight into the bed....

I never worried about monsters in the closet until someone in my house thought it would be funny to put a Furbie in there and let it scare the &^%& out of me. I still think those things are creepy, and now they are back in stores! I REALLY hope neither of my children asks for one.

All furbies should be drowned in the arctic or killed with fire. Only the elements can destroy those little demons.

i agree. they are demons!

i had like 10 furbies when i was a kid & they were perfect until one night they all started talking at the same time...

they sat on the window sill across from my bed & none of them had batteries in. if i ever hear another furby talk, i will shoot it. i never got talking toys again after that.

I'm positive that while speaking their weird little language to each other, they were really plotting a takeover. Also, "deep sleep" was a dirty lie

The closet never really bothered me because it was always to full for monsters. However I can not sleep nor could I ever with any part hanging off the bed or outside the covers, except my head. And I always had either a cat or dog in my room at bed time. I also would leap into my bed from a distance after the lights were turn out. I always had a nightlight. Growing up we didnt have tv to watch scary stuff but my stepbrothers had wild imaginations and Im easily scared. When I left he and moved out I didnt sleep for a week because I was so scared of murderers. What can I say? I moved from a small town to the big city. By the end of my first week I had a dog again. Even to this day with 2 roomates and my boyfriend, I still will not go to bed without one of my two dogs or my cat. Something about being totally alone creeps me out. And I always have some sort of light source. And Om almost 24!!!

How many of you were afraid that there was a monster in your closet or under your bed? Would you make sure the closet door was closed or keep hands and feet on the bed at all times? Do you still do this?

It wasn't the monster/s in the closet or under the bed that scared me. It was the grown up ones down stairs or down the hall. I was terrified of the dark, thought I'd gotten over that till I read some of the posts in this tread... I'll be sleeping with lights on tonight. (and yes, closet doors must be shut, a poltergeist lived in a closet where I kept my clothes in my first home in Texas, no joke)

I do remember going bathroom as a little girl (under age 8) then sitting in front of the B/W TV my mom fell asleep in front of...watched *lots* of Dracula, Frankenstein movies then...the end of "Rosemary's Baby." I Do NOT watch scary films, at all, ever. Never seen "Freddie" movies, or "The Exorcists" or "The Blair Witch Project" or any other scary/horror movie..."Fantasia" (a disney movie) scared the crap out of me as a kid I had nightmares for months.

Yeah, definitely sleeping with lights on, might even sleep on couch.

When I was a little kid my brother told me there was a troll living in my heating vent (like in Cat's Eye) that would come out and eat my hamster when I was asleep. So I would sleep with my hamster's cage next to my pillow. My mom wasn't too happy with the chewed up and shredded pillowcases.

I was always afraid of El Cuco coming out of the closet or under my bed to eat me. I use to get a running start and jump onto my bed so I would not have to stand next to the bed. I still check sometimes one can never to careful with these things. They will strike when you least expect them to. Just ask my cousin one almost dragged him away...

I was afraid of ghosts.. And thugs..lol
I slept with a butter knife and sharp fork under my pillow..
Maybe I thought I could eat them to death.. Lol I don't know..
mentality of a 6 year old girl living in the ghetto

I still get myself freaked out. Many a nights I have had to sleep with the light on. Many a nights I've had to triple check windows and doors are closed/locked! Many a nights I have stayed awake for fear of crazed murderer roaming around looking for the perfect house to break into! Sometimes while on the treadmill or in the shower, I'll think I heard something or someone coming upstairs to get me!

I think I blame Dad. He made us watch alot of history stuff about slavery and the civil rights movement. Yeah, it was great to know history, but, I really got no sleep around the time I was 7ish. I'd Always have nightmares about the triple Ks coming out to get me, hang me, lynch lil ole me! They didn't care if you were a kid, so it just freaked me out to no end!

I was never the one to believe in the fake monsters...only the real ones. Watching and reading very morbid things probably hasn't helped me out that much, lol!

I was convinced there was a skeleton rock band in my closet and that I I fell asleep with the door open and my arms were out from under the covers, they would come out and chop my arms off and use them as sticks for their drum solos.

SERIOUSLY. Still don't sleep with my arms on top of the covers....

Wondering wtf my parents used to tell me when I was little!