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 not reading any more messages in this thread. I just scanned the one about the woman in the mirror.

Lalalalalala I can't hear you!!!!

"Not quite the same thing but I am scared of toilets on planes."

If you stay seated on a plane loo while it's flushing, the force of the vacuum will suck your insides out.

Someone told me that years ago, so it must be true, although I've never tested it, obviously.

1. won't sleep with my feet hanging out of the duvet incase a ghost is there
2. hate looking in the rear view mirror in the car in the dark incase someone is sat in the backseat and a face is looking back at me
3. have to close the blinds and curtains before dusk incase I glimpse the window and a face is looking at me
4. we used to live in a property that had open plan stairs, I would bolt up and down them in the dark incase someone/something put their hand through and grabbed my ankles
5. hate washing in the sink then looking up into the bathroom mirror- convinced something will be stood behind me

Geez I've no hope!

I can't leave a leg sticking out, but that's because it's likely to be attacked played with by a cat in the middle of the night.

Ha, sorry Youall, if it helps in daylight I am 99% sure my brother made her up to frighten me. This is the same brother who spent an entire summer moving some creepy fucking porcelin doll in the middle of the night, hid a walkie talkie under my bed and once wrote my name in the mirror in blood when he had a nose bleed in the night. He's lovely now but he was an evil child.

Never mind monsters, here's something much more terrifying; MNers, beware!

Damien, the baldy speccy tabloid journalist climbing out of the toilet (how dare a workman use my toilet! ), to spy on you in the night, to provide fodder for the paper loathed by MN.

Editor: "How do we know you're any good?"
Damien: "7:45, you sniffing your socks before putting them on. 8:55, you in the lift, picking your nose; another bogey breakfast."
Editor: "He's good."

Good old Spiceworld the Movie: can't believe that was 20 years ago!

Hecate and Sparkly those made me laugh out loud. Hilarious.

Personally I can't have my feet being at all uncovered by the duvet, never mind hanging off the side. I am scared of The Witches and even though I know they're not real I still have a real thing about them grabbing my feet.
When I get out of bed they're not there, just when I'm lying in bed.
Very occasionally in hot weather I might poke my toes out but I get quite fidgety and normally put them back in.

OMG sparkly, your brother was so naughty!! I shouldn't laugh....

When I was at school, a rumour went round that if you said the Lord's Prayer backwards while lookin in the mirror, the devil appeared behind you. The thought of that still pops into my head when I look in the mirror.

I can't put my foot over the side of the bed at night for fear of King Rat. My sister and I had those Storyteller tapes when we were younger and the story with that gigantic bastard rat really stayed with me.

Also, I have recently developed a fear of someone banging really loudly on the patio door just after I have let the dog back in at night and closed the curtain across.

My dog sleeps under my bed. So I know my feet and legs are safe. She would run away if there were monsters there.

MrsMoastyToasty I thought I was going to out myself as the only person who can't sleep with the wardrobe open in case of monsters (and ghosts, even though I don't believe in ghosts!). Older brother has a lot to answer for. DH thinks it's hilarious.

Some bastard told me that if you say "Bloody Mary" three times in a bathroom then she'll appear and murder you.
That morphed into thinking "Bloody Mary" three times in the bathroom. And its very hard to edit your thoughts when you've got that in your head.

And MIRRORS. 9/10 I'm fine with mirrors but sometimes I get it in my head that I'm going to look and something else is going to be there.
Or something is watching me from the mirror when I've got my back turned.
Fecking mirrors.

I can't look out of the window after dark, unless I've flicked the outside light on first. However, we have no blinds or curtains in the kitchen and once I nipped down at night to get a drink (without my glasses), looked up from the sink out of the window and screamed because there was a person standing there.

DH came down and pointed out that it was my own shadow on the fence caused by the kitchen light behind me. 😳

When I have to switch a light on in a dark room, I'm sure that something is going to grab my hand when I reach for the switch.

I can't believe nobody here has mentioned the one very real threat at night time..

Aliens.

I used to be terrified as a kid that they could laser me through the window so used to curl up in a ball in a corner that wasn't exposed. I did grow out of it but then over Christmas it came back and I may have freaked out a bit at MIL's house...

Yep im scared of ghosts (never seen one)
These are the silly things I still do as an adult:

1: If the wardrobe door is ajar when I go to bed get up to close it
2: don't look out the window or in the mirror when I go to the bathroom at night
3: run up the stairs at night when ive turned the light off lol

My bed had the little demons under it that came out in the dark and dragged you out of bed by your feet and down into a hole in the cellar that went to hell.....😲😲😲
So I'm in my 50's and I still tuck the quilt over my feet so they can't grab them and we now have a house with NO cellar

Have to say I don't have ANY wardrobes in my house either since being an adult (use a room as a dressing room for all of us fitted with rails)
This is because my brother used to hide in mine and jump out at me.
Also he once hung his guy forks for the bonfire in my wardrobe so it would scare me (which it did.)

I hate having to lock the front door at night when I am at home on my own or if I am up after DH. I have to do it as quick as possible so that someone doesn't push the door open and murder me and my family before I have had the chance to lock it.

I definitely still don't sleep with the hall light on at night.....

I've always had a 'thing' about mirrors in the dark. If I go to the loo at night and look into a mirror without a light being on, I'm still convinced I'll see something other than myself in the reflection.
I know it's irrational, but I'm still terrified by them!!!

I'm scared of the dark. Sometimes to the point where I'm scared to go to the loo in the night. Obviously I can't admit this to DH or DCs

I don't like checking the back door's locked at bedtime either. It has a small glass pane in the middle of the door. That's where the zombie's face could appear.

I can't sleep with my feet hanging over the edge of the bed or outside of the duvet because they will be grabbed by monsters.

After watching the film Paranormal Activity I also fear the bedclothes being pulled off me.

Other than that, I am perfectly normal.

That's my story and I am sticking to it.