Where Did Your Childhood Monster Live? Under The Stairs, Bed, Closet?

[KittyWampus]

Poll question: Where Did Your Childhood Monster Live? Under The Stairs, Bed, Closet?

When you were little where was that Monster living that only came out at night or maybe even when you were alone?

[ThomCat]

1. My evil twin slept in the bed across the room.

x(

[Left Is Write]

2. Under the bed.

[mondo joe]

3. The White House

Just sayin'.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

67. That's everyones monster as of late. n/t

[billyskank]

4. Everywhere it was dark

:scared:

[otherlander]

5. Dried figs were shrunken monster heads

and when nobody was looking, they might gain the power to come back to life and put a spell on me. :scared:

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

6. While looking for new house. . .

The couple's young daughter (around four years old), was showing us her room and she made sure to show us where that attic door was.

She told us not to go up there because that was where the monsters were.

We had a nice laugh abou that.

[Kutjara]

7. Inside my parents' heads. n/t

[Broken_Hero]

8. Basement nt

[Joey Liberal]

9. In the beer my father drank every day n/t

[Ariana Celeste]

10. gramma's basement

my older brother used to scare the crap out of me with stories about the monster downstairs whenever i visited gramma's house as a little girl.

there was also one under gramma's bed but eventually i figured out it was just him. (ok, gramma told me)

[u4ic]

11. In the master bedroom

of the house.

Unfortunately, he was real.

[SPKrazy]

19. ...

x( :grr: :nuke:

sorry he was real

:hug:

[u4ic]

22. .

:hug:

[I Have A Dream]

27. ...

:cry:

:hug:

[u4ic]

49. Thank you, m'friend

I'm fine. :hug: :loveya:

[Phillycat]

28. Exactly. Me too.

[auntAgonist]

36. I'm so sorry

:hug:

aA

[u4ic]

50. .

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

29. I'm so sorry

:hug:

[u4ic]

52. .

:hug:

[auntAgonist]

35. ........

:hug:

I hope and pray your life is happier now.
:loveya:

aA
kesha.

[u4ic]

53. Thank you, auntieA, it is

:hug: :loveya:

[AlienGirl]

12. Inside the nightmares.

[BarenakedLady]

13. Under the bed.

which is why my feet could never go over the edge.....:scared:

[SPKrazy]

59. was this it?

[SPKrazy]

14. Under The Bed

although I remember being frozen in fear for what seemed like hours when I was a kid thinking I saw something in the closet. It was dark and I didn't move until it was light.

[Deja Q]

15. The playground, the bus stop, school...

Plenty of monsters.

None of them imaginary.

And many came out in the daytime too.

Even to my face, "Go beat him up, he never fights back!"

I'm stopping now before I go too far.

[BarenakedLady]

18. Breaks my heart I tell ya

:hug:

I wish I could go back in time and hug the boy that you were.

[gemdem]

25. You and I were the same kid

Until one day I blew up and beat the crap out of one of bastards after he finally pushed me too far. That was 8th grade, and it started all over again in high school when I went from public school to Catholic.

My monsters were everywhere -- just like yours.

Peace. :hug:

[SPKrazy]

31. ...

had a few of those myself hypnotoad

actually plenty of them edit: sorry you went through that hypno

it sucks

:hug:

[u4ic]

60. .

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[trof]

16. 'Other'. The kitchen.

The refrigerator chased me around the kitchen.
Go figure.
:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

17. my mother was married to him.

[SPKrazy]

32. ...

sorry

:pals:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

68. my mom had one too.

Thank god they weren't married. He was gone in 5 years. I still think that was even too long of a wait for her to get rid of the bastard. :grr:


But at any rate, I hope you and your mom have been doing better. Here's a hug for you. :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. I had a free standing closet.....

That stood on a pedestal.....

So there was a space around the base.......

And that was where my monsters lived.....

I used to stuff my shoes and socks in the hole to keep the monsters away from me...... :scared:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. In the basement.

We lived in an old house that had one of those big furnaces with a bunch of arms. I was scared to death of it, thought it was going to get me if I went down there alone.

[Der Blaue Engel]

38. Was there an elevator that poured blood out of it when it opened

and a mysterious bartender telling you to do things?

[otherlander]

66. There was something in my basement, but it wasn't a monster.

It was something that shouted, "Ah! Monster!" at me. I didn't like being called a monster so I stayed out of the basement.

[asthmaticeog]

23. In daddy.

:cry:

[slj0101]

37. Don't wake him in a fit.

:D

[femmocrat]

24. Two houses away.

It was another kid's father... scared the crap out of me.

[Generic Brad]

26. Just outside the second story window

As I was drifting off to sleep my consciousness would get sucked out of the top of my head and through the wall. I hated going to sleep and now make sure the headboard of my bed is up against an inside wall.

[RetroLounge]

30. Always in the closet

To this day, I hate sleeping with the closet door ajar...

:scared:

RL

[SPKrazy]

33. yikes!

[av8rdave]

34. The attic...definitely the attic. To make matters worse,

in my childhood home the attic had a louvered window near the peak of the roof. When the wind blew hard it would make a tortured moaning sound. I remember burying my head under the blankets with my hands over my ears so I wouldn't hear it.

[Dukkha]

39. definitely the attic

we had a brand new home so it was settling a lot and the attic above my room made creaking and tapping noises. add to that my overactive imagination and monster movie addiction, made many sleepless nights for me.

[The2ndWheel]

40. Outside the car when traveling

He'd run right beside the car. He was quite fast, and very agile. Just a small monster. Thinking back on it, it was a cross between the thing on the wing in the Twilight Zone movie/episode, and the Chupacabra. I didn't even know they existed when I was 6 or 7, so that's weird.

[texanwitch]

41. My monster was in my dreams,

I would have nightmares every night, I can still remember them.

I don't think my Mother ever slept.

[SPKrazy]

42. Had A Few Of Them Too

periods at different times

[NewWaveChick1981]

43. Mine was the dot on the TV screen (black and white) that remained long

after the TV was turned off. I had watched an episode of The Twilight Zone just before going to bed one night, and that show always scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. Mom and Dad had moved the old black & white TV into the room I shared with my sister, and we were lucky as hell to have a TV in our room....until the dot made its presence known. :yoiks: :scared: I was six or seven, and I was convinced the evil people from The Twilight Zone would use it to zap into our room and get us. I could not look at the TV when the dot was there without freaking out...and this went on for a long time. Fortunately, I got over it, and no TV dots bother me any more. :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

51. How Do You Know

that they didn't get you?

maybe you were exchanged?

[NewWaveChick1981]

55. Shaddap!

:scared: Maybe they did.... :yoiks: The real me is probably a dowdy Freeper schoolmarm somewhere in East Bumfuck, Idaho.... Maybe the exchange was a GOOD thing after all...:P

[SPKrazy]

57. Nahhh!

I think they looked at you and said: ain't no way we can replicate her!

in the best possible way I mean that of course!

:hug: :loveya:

[NewWaveChick1981]

61. Aren't you sweet?

:rofl: :loveya: :hi: :* Or maybe they took one look and ran away screaming... :P

[SPKrazy]

63. Ewwwwwww!

No I don't think so either!

:shrug:


:hug:

[Rambis]

44. Bigfoot was always looking in my window

Too many legend of boggy creek reruns I guess.

[EnviroBat]

48. No Shit! YouToo?

[AllegroRondo]

45. My daughter had a closet monster for years.

he was responsible for hiding the TV remote, eating the odd socks, and making extra coat hangers. And when we moved, she asked the movers not to forget to pack him.

[EnviroBat]

46. I really believed that Bigfoot lived in the woods behind our house.

I always slept with my back to the window because I was convinced that the one time I looked over at the window, he'd be there, peering back at me. That "Legend of Boggy Creek" movie screwed me UP when I was a kid!

[Rambis]

54. Boggy creek

When the guys is sitting on the john and bigfoot crashes through scary stuff man. I rue the day I ever watched that movie.

[EnviroBat]

65. I did not like that one bit...

Sometimes I think I've never really recovered from the scariness of that...

[Rambis]

75. Ditto! (nm)

x

[EnviroBat]

47. Mine was the stepdad monster that seemed to be everywhere.

Unfortunately, he was NOT imaginary.

[bikebloke]

56. Right outside the window

And we in a fourth floor apartment. But I'd see shadows moving on the window. You can bet it was a monster. I'm lucky to be alive. But I bet there are others not posting here who didn't make it.

[VelmaD]

58. I had two

When I was little little the first one lived under the bed. And I had to sleep exactly in the middle because that was the only place it's legs couldn't get me. It had legs like a spider. *shudder*

When I was a little older the monster circled the whole world every year but you never knew which night it would be in your town. You had to have the blinds completely closed at night so it couldn't see in and see you. If it did...it would GET you. *snort*

[5thGenDemocrat]

62. Outside my bedroom window, at night

It was kind of like that Gremlin dude on The Twilight Zone.
John
Outgrew it by the time I was 25 or so.

[SPKrazy]

64. Like The One On The Plane?

in the movie

the gremlin outside destroying the engine?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

69. The furnace

I could go in the basement as long as I was 12 feet or so away from the furnace. The bottom of the stairs was within the monster's armlength, so I had to quickly move past the last couple of steps.

[SPKrazy]

71. That Reminds Me Of Something

almost like a deja vous

can't put my finger on it




Maybe I'll think of it later


:rofl:

all right, I'm being mean

:pals:

[prole_for_peace]

70. in the few inches between the side of my bed and the wall.

i don't know why my parents didn't push the side of the bed against the wall. it was a few dark scary inches away. i slept perched on the other side.

[SPKrazy]

72. Good Question

If I sleep near a wall, I want that bed against the wall still to this day.

:shrug:

[prole_for_peace]

73. i never told them it scared the be-jeebus out of me

if i had they would have moved it. i was only about 4 or so at the time.

i think i will bring it up when i see the parents this weekend.

[SPKrazy]

74. Yeah, I Think Some Kids (Me Included) Tend Not

to tell their fears

maybe it's a fear of voicing them and making them real.

the truth is that the opposite is true.

:hi: