Little Monsters

Oh good lawd. When I was a child my bedroom adjoined a bathroom lined in red cedar. Under the basin cabinet there was a foot high tiled gap, about equally as deep. A solid grey brick wall there.

I was absolutely terrified that there was a double secret door underneath and that these large mechanical cuckoo birds lived there in a cave which led right to Hell. I was absolutely terrified.

I can still see them and the sepia tones in my mind. They don't actually represent a cuckoo in any form I have ever seen but that's what they were to me. Welded beaks and rivets, copper colored, areas of green verdigris, stocky bodies, wings that were more like broad human arms, at least a foot high, staunch and out to get me. To peck me & and tear at me and torture me in my sleep then drag me with them back down under into the dark, forever gone . Large clouty snapping beaks, yet with the precision of well seasoned heavy metals.

They were clever, I would call out to my parents that the birds were coming to get me. My parents would come down and turn on the lights and show me nothing was there. The mechanical cuckoos were far more clever than my parents though, they always snuck back out and around the corner to get me as soon as Mum & or Dad were gone. I can still see them, almost smell them, the dampness.

Thanks for the memories Fu : slumps :
 
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@}-}rebecca---- said:
The mechanical cuckoos were far more clever than my parents though, they always snuck back out and around the corner to get me as soon as Mum & or Dad were gone.

I do believe this is the single most endearing line I have ever read in one of your posts, me dearest Sister Rebecca.

:struggles-with-feelings-wanting-to-protect-little-girl-from-evil-cuckoos:
 
Shankara20 said:
I do believe this is the single most endearing line I have ever read in one of your posts, me dearest Sister Rebecca.

:struggles-with-feelings-wanting-to-protect-little-girl-from-evil-cuckoos:
: smiles softly :

Even the most perpetually stoic & brave of us need a little saving sometimes :rose:
 
I ended up being forbidden to watch "Unsolved Mysteries" as a kid after the month long nightmares about the Lockness Monster! We lived near a creek that emptied into the Delaware river and I was convinced it was going to swim all the way across the Atlantic just to try to come and eat me up.

But taking away television didn't stop me from believing my brothers' stories. Like that we built our house on an Indian graveyard and the angered ghosts would hunt me in the night. They fed me stories like a ghost would appear under my bed and hack at me with a tomahawk through the mattress for my disrespect of their sacred grounds.

There are tons more. I was a very gullible child. :eek:
 
I love Nessie! I wasn't ever scared of monsters as much as just had bad feelings...kind of like something "bad" about a room. It wasn't after a movie or show or always the same room or at the same time..just an impression I got.

I loved this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097758/

My monsters have always been real people..not something you might see at halloween.
 
_kiana_ said:
I ended up being forbidden to watch "Unsolved Mysteries" as a kid after the month long nightmares about the Lockness Monster! We lived near a creek that emptied into the Delaware river and I was convinced it was going to swim all the way across the Atlantic just to try to come and eat me up.

But taking away television didn't stop me from believing my brothers' stories. Like that we built our house on an Indian graveyard and the angered ghosts would hunt me in the night. They fed me stories like a ghost would appear under my bed and hack at me with a tomahawk through the mattress for my disrespect of their sacred grounds.

There are tons more. I was a very gullible child. :eek:

I am an older brother - wonder what my sister has to say about my stories.....
 
When I was little, I was convinced that if my hands or feet hung over the edge of my bed the monster's hand, from under the bed, would reach up and grab me.

Years later, I'm in my late teens and walking through a haunted house one Halloween. One of the rooms was a bedroom and as I walked passed the bed a hand reaches out and grabs my ankle. I screamed and managed to kick the poor "monster" right in the face. I didn't know monsters could cuss like that! :D
 
His_pita said:
When I was little, I was convinced that if my hands or feet hung over the edge of my bed the monster's hand, from under the bed, would reach up and grab me.

Years later, I'm in my late teens and walking through a haunted house one Halloween. One of the rooms was a bedroom and as I walked passed the bed a hand reaches out and grabs my ankle. I screamed and managed to kick the poor "monster" right in the face. I didn't know monsters could cuss like that! :D
LOL. You just made my day. :)
 
When I was a kid my brother's bedroom wall had polished pine boards with the knots still visable. I used to feel as thought the knots were eyes watching everything I did. I didn't want to sleep in there because I thought the were watching me all night. Of course I had to on occasion because my brother had bunk beds, and it wasn't the place to put guests (my room was). I used to close my eyes and keep them closed so that I didn't have to see them.


I also used to imagine that there were monsters under my bed when the lights went out, and that my stuffed animals protected me from them (as my mother told me).
 
This is perhaps one of my earliest memories as well. I must have been 3 or 4 years old, I was at my grandparents house. They asked me to go get Greg, my uncle, who being only 10 years older than I, was a rambunctious 13 year old. Kudos though, he is currently here in San Diego on the fire lines as a fire captain.

That said, his room was at the end of the hallway. I knew he was in there, but his bedroom light was off. As I got to the door, he sprang out at me. He had cold cream on his face and a shower cap. I've never screamed in such terror in all my life. To this day, a lit hallway with a darkedned room at the end always gives a small shudder and hesitation.
 
Monsters dont scare me. I started inviting this shadow around a light pole into the house when I was 3... I thought he was Count Dracula..

The ones that scare me.. and I guess they do qualify as monsters... are psychopaths... the people that kill for no reason..without conscience.. Friday the 13th and the first Halloween movie scared the bejeebus out of me because I thought.. dammit..there could be someone out there crazy enough to do that shit
 
Whats truly scary is that these kind of monsters really do exist.

EmpressFi said:
The ones that scare me.. and I guess they do qualify as monsters... are psychopaths... the people that kill for no reason..without conscience.. Friday the 13th and the first Halloween movie scared the bejeebus out of me because I thought.. dammit..there could be someone out there crazy enough to do that shit
 
Right after I would go to bed around 5 and 6 years of age, I used to feel fingernails trail along the bottom of my feet and a deep male voice whisper "Tickle tickle." Other times I would feel the bed shake, sirens in the distance (we were 20 miles from the nearest town) or the voice would move up to my ear and whisper "I'm going to get (sometimes have) you." I remember lying in bed with my eyes and fists clenched shut, pleading with it to go away. It eventually did as I got older.

I didn't tell anyone about what was happening to me every night until I was an adult. I still have no idea what it was, but I do know I was never asleep or anywhere near it when it occurred. I'm an extremely skeptical person when it comes to anything paranormal, but I've never been able to explain this away. To this day, I'm terrified of sleeping with my feet bare. It doesn't matter how hot it is, I MUST have my feet covered at night. If I can't have covers, I'll wear socks to bed.

As silly as it sounds, bare, uncovered feet at night are my greatest fear.
 
When i saw the title of this thread i had to wonder why you were writing about my kids, Shank!!! :p
 
HottieMama said:
When i saw the title of this thread i had to wonder why you were writing about my kids, Shank!!! :p

Yeah, I have to admit I thought it had something to do with kids, too. :eek:
 
When I shared a room with my little sister, she always hd to have the room dark or she couldn't sleep, I was on top bunk and would imagine the whole room filling up with snakes as soon as the lights went out.
I hate snakes :(
 
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