What monster lived under your bed when you were a kid?

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:01 pm

My brothers tried convincing me there was an alligator but I knew it was a carnivorous troll with long arms. Fortunately, I could leap just out of his reach.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:09 pm

It was in my closet, like in Monsters, Inc.
It was the indefinite nature of it that made it scary. I still don't know what it really looked like.

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:16 pm

The Blob.

ketida · Post by **ketida** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:53 pm

Me too, the Blob, for years. I always hesitated before putting my foot on the floor, knowing that ooze was just waiting to gobble me up....damn that movie!!

Steamwalker · Post by **Steamwalker** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:58 pm

MTGuru wrote:The Blob.

Speaking of The Blob, what gave me nightmares as a kid is that sludge monster from "The Raft" short in Creepshow 2 (1987). I literally would not go into a lake for years. I would always see something floating on the water that would scare the beejeezus out of me. Nightmares for years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGw_BBDfj9I

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Tue May 19, 2009 8:21 pm

mutepointe wrote:My brothers tried convincing me there was an alligator but I knew it was a carnivorous troll with long arms. Fortunately, I could leap just out of his reach.

The Alligator was actually a Crocodile, and he lived under my bed. I was OK as long as I didn't fall asleep with a hand or foot hanging over the edge of the bed... I'm so lucky to still have all my appendages.

weedie · Post by **weedie** » Tue May 19, 2009 8:51 pm

Speaking of things things ' Blob ' ..There was a Japanese movie called the H-Man that came out in the '50's......
Same thing........a Blobby stuff that dissolved people !!!...
I was 7 year old boy at the time I saw it, and it scared the sh***er out of me for many years......I had to sleep with the window open no more than 1/2 an inch wide.......so the H-Man could'nt get at me while I was sleeping....!!

As a footnote to the above............
Last year I searched out a copy of The H-Man from E-Bay and it was genuine fear that gripped me when I slipped it into the DVD player !! .....
This fear soon turned to embarrassment though, as the Missus and our two teenagers showed no sympathy at all for the dear old Dad,facing his childhood demons....There they sat sniggering away "You're kiddin' are'nt ya Dad,this is wimpy stuff to be sure"....
Alas,I had to agree with them, as it was a real B grader of a movie......But at the time,all the kids in our street were mighty afraid of the evil,nasty,blobby H-Man...

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:07 pm

Wolves. I knew they were upstairs waiting for me as I climbed the stairs to go to bed.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Wed May 20, 2009 4:23 am

None for me but one of my imaginative cousins imagined a creature called the Aah Haah (the a's sounding like the a in "hat") who lived in an electrical outlet. My uncle was an artist, so he conceived and drew a sort of Leprechaun character called Mr. Umpity. Little Kenny stood the picture of Mr. U near the haunted outlet and from then on slept perfectly

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed May 20, 2009 4:32 am

Kids are weird. My bed was not within reach of the light switch and, as it was clearly unsafe to cross from the switch to the bed in the dark, I generally had to talk my sister into turning off the light.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Wed May 20, 2009 5:30 am

Monster? who needed one when your younger brother slept in the bunk under you. I'm hoping something really evil slept under his bed. Our boys were crazy about "There's a Nightmare in My Closet" I'm keeping it...to pass down of course.

caedmon · Post by **caedmon** » Wed May 20, 2009 6:13 am

I have one brother, 5 years older than me. I didn't need monster under the bed, I had him to terrorize me.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed May 20, 2009 6:20 am

I had blood-sucking monsters of the worst kind.

When we went to a holiday bungalow in Millisle on the Ards peninsula, by the end of the summer I was miserable and covered in welts. Eventually we worked out that I was allergic to flea-bites, and we didn't go there any more.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Wed May 20, 2009 6:21 am

caedmon wrote:I have one brother, 5 years older than me. I didn't need monster under the bed, I had him to terrorize me.

Younger brothers are almost always deserving of some type of retribution. Noogies!

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Wed May 20, 2009 9:08 am

emmline wrote:It was in my closet, like in Monsters, Inc.
It was the indefinite nature of it that made it scary. I still don't know what it really looked like.

Mine was under the bed, but was similarly indefinite in nature. I don't remember that phase lasting very long, though. The monsters who lived in the bottom of the steep, dark, wooded valley in front of our house, however, were another story altogether. They're still there, as far as I know...

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