anything you were told as a kid, that scared you? If i couldn't sleep, i was told the sand man would come?

Question

the thought of the sandman coming to put sand in my eyes scared me witless!

Answer 1

My parents didn't do that to me but I have heard about a girl whose parents went out each night and left her in the top bunk with live snakes on the floor so that she wouldn't get up (this i heard from a teacher who taught her at the time).

Answer 2

My long dead Grandmother told me about a gnome that chased people and lived under a bridge. She said the gnome had chased a neighbor while he was on horseback and kept up with the horse. She said the neighbor's hair turned white forever from the experience. Hateful woman! I was scared for quite a while.

I was terrified of trains and wolves as a kid. I would have nightmares where trains would whiz by and then wolves would bound across the tracks as the train passed and attack me.

Answer 3

I was told at school by a very religious teacher after the story of Noah that next time the world would be destroyed by fire and all the children that didn't believe and weren't good would be fried in hell for eternity. I was five - I woke up screaming that night. Thank-you Mr Law where ever you are!
Also after sharing stories at a sleep over one friend told me that everyone has a spirit that hovers over you at night and protects you - these are dead people you may have known. I was terrified of opening my eyes at night for ages in fear of deathly person staring at me.
Character building....?

Answer 4

My mother told me that if I ate candy before I went to bed, "The mice will come and lick your butt!" I told her that I wore pajama pants to bed and that it was impossible, but my mother was insane.

Actually, I am really afraid of Ferris wheels because I've heard so many stories of people rocking them and killing the people below them! (I've roller coasters and such, because I can't fall out of them!)

I am also petrified about people dying in their sleep. When I was a little kid my mother would always have me check on my brothers when they were sleeping to make sure that they were still alive. I think she was worried about SIDS, but I get scared when people sleep. (I wake my husband up a lot just to make sure he's living. If he stops snoring or I can't feel him breathing it scares me.)

Answer 5

Not me but one Halloween my mother, after scaring him with stories of ghosts and monsters all day, attached a witch effigy to a broom handle and held it up to my brothers bedroom window. When he saw it he screamed and my father ran up the stairs to see what was wrong. Obviously he didn't believe my brother, who was five at the time, had seen a witch tapping at his window and had a lot of trouble calming him down. Nightmares followed.

My mother only admitted this recently.

Answer 6

As a ten year old I read "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood, It scared the daylights out of me. I've read it again since and I can't see what I was worried about.

Answer 7

OMG, how the hell is that supposed to make you sleep! I think your parents just wanted you to shut up and stay in bed and leave them alone!

Anyway, childhood ghost stories, hmmm, my uncle used to frighten the crap out of me with the story of a dismembered hand that crawled around on its own and killed people.

Just like the story by Guy De Maupassant "Le Main."
I don't thing he was plagiarising Guy, foreign literature wasn't his thing.

Answer 8

My dad used to say if i didnt listen to my parents a monster would come out the drain in the shower...now every time i go in a bathroom i always look in the shower...even at my friends house lol

Answer 9

everyone here says that at midnight a soucouyant(like a female vampire) would come out to suck ppls blood.They say it is an old woman who comes out of her skin under a cotton tree nad before the sun comes up it goes back into its skin.It also turns into a ball of fire to move around.

Answer 10

I was told that you would die of lack of oxygen in your sleep by my a$$hole cousin when I was five... scared me to death, couldn't sleep for days until I just passed out in the end.