I used to love watching The Land Before Time, and Pizza Hut had this promotion where you could buy a plastic hand puppet of each of the characters. So we collected them and eventually we had the whole set. But the nasty dinosaur, named Sharptooth, freaked both of us out at night. It would be on the dressing table and the eyes looked scary. So during the day we threw it over our next door neighbours fence, into their bush. I always wonder if they had found it, or itās still there under the bush.
The Land Before Time dinosaurs - the āscaryā one is 3rd from the right:
There was also a wooden owl that was hung near my door, which is at the end of a long hallway. I would get scared of its eyes at night (as well), when we would get up to walk to the toilet. So I convinced mum to throw it away.
Mitch - No I donāt. Iām sorry. We threw the Sharptooth one over the fence, and the rest were either given or thrown away. There are a few on ebay, though.
Hmm, when I was little I would run to my bed from the door because of the Foot Leopard that lived under my bed. It was either blue with purple rosettes, or vis versa. Geez, itās been years since Iāve thought of it.
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Unlike most kids, I didnāt think of monsters hiding under the bed or in the closet- I thought they were hidden in the walls, waiting until I shut my eyes so they could pop up from the wall, fly towards me, and ādanceā around me, judging what kind of a dream I should have each time.
I was a little sneaky and peeked into some of the scary movies my parents watched. (I was a little hesistant to watch Monsters, Inc because at first I thought it was an animated horror movie. Boy, was I wrong.)
But the ājumping out of wallsā idea just came to me. I didnāt get it from a movie, at least I think not.
One was that strange black blob like that thing on the moomons (moomins? canāt remember). It was a depressing character on tv, and I felt sorry for it, but also afraid of it at the same time (weird huh?), so sometimes I thought it hung around my house when I was little. In my dreams I had the bizarre urge to both hug and run away from it at the same time.
Later that monster got replacedā¦ by a caveman. Yes, thatās stupid and weird, but it was this miniture caveman all hairy and strange with a nose sticking out of its masses of black hair. When it āscaredā me its eyes would pup out all bloodshot and horrible. Definitly human in some ways, but it only came up to my ankle in height. It was just horrible. Didnāt feel sorry for it. I just hated it.
Black Widow Spiders. I was terrified of them as a child, and I always imagined them swarming under my bed at night, waiting to strike. Yeah, I had an active imagination.
This was hiding in my closet for about two weeks when I saw this movie at a party in 2005. I wasnāt really scared of monsters when I was little. I was afraid of murderers, crazy ones. Like Leatherface or Jigsaw or Shoko Asahara or Charles Manson.
Oh, heh, Iāve never been afraid of monsters or murderersā¦
I remember times where I feared diseaseā¦ yeah I know, strange right? I thought I was going to die from smallpox after seeing a documentary. That gave me nightmares for a day or two. Havenāt always LOVED insects either Vampiresā¦ another thing I used to be afraid of and the dark. shivers it was creepy what I could imagine lurking there.
I always felt there was a murderer just barely out of sight at the end of the bedpost. For a while, I also checked to make sure there were no aliens in the bathtub.
The monsters under my bed, or at least the ones that took center stage in all my nightmares were the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptors, the three-headed monster from Hercules, and for some reason, Klingons.