To be scared of monsters?

[ImLadybird]

So when I was little I was terrified of monsters that lived under my bed, kind of like the troll in the Three Billy Goats fairy tale. I used to jump as far away as I could when getting out so they wouldn't grab my ankles.
As an adult I've always had a divan bed with draws and I'd forgotten all about it but I recently moved house and got a new bed with a regular frame and a huge 60cm gap underneath - a breading ground for loads of monsters. This stupid irrational fear has resurfaced and I can't sit on the edge of the bed or let my feet dangle. It's ridiculous. I try to force myself but I get all panicky inside.
Do any of you sane MNers still have any childhood fears?

I'm so pleased it isn't just me!

Watching 'Supernatural' before bed doesn't help unfortunately!

Fizz you need lights you can control from your phone.
Go to bed with all the lights on and then sit there and turn them off.

MissJC, I'm scared of fish too! When I was a child my mother put a trout in my bed (was a joke I guess) and have been terrified ever since. Once I was canoeing in the lake at centre parcs and I could see them swimming about and was panicking and I got tipped in to the water and they touched me and now I can't even swim in pools because I feel like fish might be in there as well as sharks in the deep end.

A friend of mine, who needless to say isn't in the UK, has a pump action shotgun in a secret (purpose built) compartment her headboard, so she can grab the gun quickly whilst lying in bed. Bet that would keep monsters away!

To be fair her ex husband is a seriously, seriously nasty fucker and she testified against him, and he has a grudge the size of Argentina.

Oh shit! Monsters, witches, ghosts, faces at the window, Jack-in-the-boxes, even fish ffs, I'm screwed! Bedside lamp on and landing light on. All I need now is my anti-monster spray, my sister to stamp on fucking everything and a pump action shotgun!
Sweet dreams you batshit crazy MNers!

You need to see Monsters Inc, they ate all good guys really...

No! No! Are not ate, my predictive hade a sense of humour

I can't look in mirrors in semi darkness, nor look at my reflection in windows without blinds or curtains drawn, when it's dark, or getting dark. All blinds and curtains must be shut before dusk. If I'm out I'll phone DD1 or 2 at home to remind them to close them all. And if I'm travelling on a coach from daylight turning to dusk, I feel all nervy and oppressed, while it's dusk outside, because I can't close any curtains. I'm okay once it's fully dark, though. just so long as I don't look in the window

I don't know what it is about the dusk, that half way zone between light and dark, that spooks me, but it does.

I can't walk up the stairs at night in the dark without thinking the stairs will turn to sludge and freddy Kruger will get me from behind when I'm stuck.
Hate walking up the stairs!

When I was a child I went on an exchange trip and stayed with another family. For a 'laugh' the dad of the family hid under the bed in his daughters room then, when we went into her room and we were sitting on the beds chatting, he grabbed our ankles and shouted rah! Thirty years later I stil feel a bit nervous around empty space under beds; also, as an adult, it all seems as creepy as fuck that he thought that appropriate/funny

Not quite the same thing but I am scared of toilets on planes. The engineers who designed them accidentally built in a vortex which explains the awful whooshing sound. If I press the vortex button instead of the flush I will doom the plane, so I press the flush and race out the door falling over anyone waiting with a sheer look of terror on my face.
My monsters fear has gone ever since we got Phillips Hue light bulbs that I can turn off once I'm safely in bed.

No matter how hot it is, I will NEVER sleep with my feet out the duvet due to ghosts.

I don't believe in them and poo poo anyone who thinks they have seen one/felt its' presence etc, but I won't leave my feet out.

Fizz you need lights you can control from your phone.

I have put them on my birthday wish list.

I have no blinds or curtains on my kitchen windows and now I feel nervy about going in there in case I see a face! Damn this thread, making me feel better and worse all at once...

I'm also petrified of having the curtains open at night in case I see a face at the window. It's so bad that even seeing an unexpected face at the window during the day gives me the jitters and as for horror films or anything that has faces at Windows...... shudder! When I was at uni one night one of the other students (who didn't know of my fear) played a prank by climbing up outside the top kitchen window, tapping on it and grinning down at us with a torch to their face. I freaked out so much my housemates nearly had to call an ambulance! I'm physically shaking just thinking about it now! And YY to poster who mentioned that scene in Famous five with Anna seeing a face at the window! I'll also add to that seeing 'Woman in White' on tv when I was about 12 (had wandered down to see parents and sat on stairs transfixed) - wasn't scared by the ghost but was scared by the real woman at the window!

I also hate going to the toilet in the dark and that 'walk across the landing' and I have to have my feet and shoulders covered in case of ghosts/monsters. (In summer I have a very light sheet that I drape over myself.)

I'm always afraid that something will grab my foot from under the bed.

What do you mean by "draws?"

I don't like looking in the mirror when I need the bathroom in the night. If I look too long, either a monster will appear or my face will morph into one!!!

When I flush the chain I have to run out the bathroom quick or the evil witch will come out of the toilet

I'm scared of human monsters 😳

When i was little my brother told me there was a woman in the mirror and if you turn your back on the mirror in the dark when she can still see you she will come out of the mirror. I turn my bathroom light off by leaving the door just open enough to get my hand in, pulling the pull cord out to the hallway, then turning it off, so even my hand isn't in the same room as the mirror.

I've found my people. I've thought it was just me. I'm in my early forties and I can't sleep uncovered. No bit of my body can over hang the edge of the bed, even it's it's wrapped in the quilt. Under my bed is filled with stuff so nothing is under there.
I can't look out the window at night just incase someone/thing is there.
Once I can up to bed I can't bear to go downstairs again. I've been to thirsty to sleep and still not gone down stairs. I used to have a mirror in the front room which I could see from the stairs. After turning the lights of no way could I look at it when I went up stairs.

I saw a horrible poster years ago, I think it was for the Evil Dead remake and it looked like the devil/possessed girl was under a bed. Ever since then, I've not been able to sleep under a bed with a gap underneath it. My current bed has a gap, so I store things underneath my bed so she can't live under there.

I like to scare myself- creepy pastas, YouTube videos of horror stories being read out. And then will find myself going down the stairs into the dark living room, or walking to the toilet at work that I know will have the lights off, in a terrified state waiting for the ghosts/monsters/witches to jump out at me 🙃

Steff divan beds go down to the floor often with pull out storage drawers. I don't think op leaves her knickers underneath the bed.

Thanks! Yep- drawers not draws 🙈

"If I look too long, either a monster will appear or my face will morph into one"

Oh yes. (See my earlier post about not looking into mirrors or uncovered windows in the dark.) For me, it's not so much that a strange face might be looking into the window, but that my face is now that of a phantom in the gloom, and that really freaks me. Daft, I know, but I still avoid it.

I never was bothered about open wardrobes. Then I read a story as a child about Hobscabs - an evil entity that lived in the wardrobe.

Wardrobes shut even now in my mid 40s!