30 Of The Scariest Things People Believed When They Were Younger, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community

I was about 35 and home alone during summer night. I suddenly heard some scratching, banging and popping in my room and legit though there’s a ghost or fox or something scary under my bed. I covered my head in duvet scared to leave my bed. Turned out we forgot to turn off the heating when winter ended and thermostat kicked in because it was chilly summer night. I know those sounds very well, I ignore them all winter long. But middle of summer my brain went straight for the worst case scenario.

Why would you assume its a slave ghost?

I do still have active imagination until now. That's why I can't watch horror movies

You sure they were pipes? :/

That's cool, though! And, this is how books happen.

NOW I'M GONNA MAKE LOVE STORIES FOR ALL MY FEARS

That's great, turning it around. Maybe you should write a book about them....

💀 spooky scary skeletonsss 💀

My little brother, about 5 at the time, and I, 8, shared a room because we were terminally messy. He woke up one night screaming about the monsters under his bed. My dad pelted in, and took him away (leaving me with the monsters!). The next day dad fitted plywood panels to both of our beds, first raking the stuff out from under them, so there was no way for monsters to hide there.

Not that long ago, I started having flashes in my room. Just random flashes of light every night. I would always be in bed, lights off, sleeping mask on, and a light would flash. I imagined that it was someone who would take a picture of me every night to make sure i would go to sleep. As it turns out, i discovered that it was my lightbulb that was just near the end of its life and was flashing spontaniously. But he hasn't come in a while...

Bomb shelter. finally found one where I live in Canada thats completely unassuming

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Staring at a mirror im a dark room can give strange phenomenons where some people see monsters and other scary stuff. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/making-sense-chaos/201408/monsters-in-the-mirror-no-really-literal-monsters

Same.

It's been a tradition in many different cultures to cover all mirrors during the mourning period after a death, so that their loved one's spirit doesn't get confused on it's way to the afterlife or trapped in a mirror

In my bathroom, we have a mirror that's on the left when you walk in. It also has a very dim night light, so it only lights up just barely enough to see. I always try to turn on the light before i look in the mirror because i don't want to see the shadow man over my shoulder.

I was told this is the exact reason why breaking a mirror gives 7 years of bad luck. Romans believed that the mirror actually is or has or reflects part of your soul. I could be completely wrong on this, I just remember being told this.

Seems like psych diagnoses come in trends. I don't know when you were diagnosed, but it seems like it was the thing in the late '90's early '00's. Currently it seems like it's spectrum disorders.

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Wait until you play "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." video game series :>

This remind me of the game "60 seconds"

It’s like Y2K

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY WITH THE STATE OF THINGS?

I was too busy dancing to Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham.

i just barely finished it. i said this on another article by BP, but i was sent to the principals office for reading it because it wasn’t something i should be learning about because it’s too ‘realistic’. so me, a 16 year old, shouldn’t be learning about the dystopian society we will inevitably be experiencing. them telling me not to freaked me out cuz i realized we are a lot closer to this than i thought

We were all petrified...

Definitely thought this was going go be more of a problem based on similar thoughts as a child. Yet have never heard of anyone dying via quicksand.

Episodes of Tarzan did nothing to dispel that myth. It was all giant spiders and quicksand.

Northern Canada has muskeg and I got stuck in it as a kid.

My older brother convinced me of this, too. Once when my dad took me to the restroom at a rest stop, he flushed the toilet and I ran screaming out of the restroom. My dad was mortified.

Maybe you got the idea from the movie Look Who's Talking Too, where the baby, voiced by a pre suffering from Aphasia Bruce Willis, is afraid to use the toilet (while being potty trained) because he is afraid of the toilet (voiced by Mel Brooks)?

As a little-little kid I used to believe that, if I flushed at night I'd wake up a monster that would come out of the toilet and get me.

My uncle told his kids that rats lived in the sewers and would come up and bite them on the bum. They were terrified

Ha! You’re both wrong. Everyone knows that the watermelon will grow out of your belly button. Duh.