I saw Jaws when I was too young and for several years I couldn't sleep with my feet sticking over my mattress because the carpet sharks were coming to get meh! :stunned:
My aunt used to think she saw fins swimming around her bed.
Eh, I was scared of a lot of things, but one thing that still scares me to this day are Muppets. Not the regular Muppets;
Mean Muppets. (I was like 3 or 4.) To this day, I'm still convinced that there was
more going on than just simply "bad dreams". It all seemed so real that I'm reluctant to write it off.
These Mean Muppets would come into the house after my parents and I were asleep. And they'd walk around the house going "Mup...mup...mup...mup". There was a huge one who'd periodically go walking up and down the hallway past my bedroom door, and every so often they'd ride what sounded like a choo-choo train around the house. They wanted to eat me, so I stayed in my room and cried until I fell asleep and they went away...except for one time.
One night, for some reason, I felt compelled to get up and go out into the living room, and when I say compelled, I mean it was like my legs
moved of their own accord! They completely ignored what I wanted them to do, and it took a profound act of will on my part to make them move with me again. Anyway, I made it out to the living room and
I. SAW. THEM! They were silhouetted against the living rooms windows outside my house making their way to the front door. These were distinctly Muppet-shaped silhouettes. I somehow managed to force myself to run back to my room and shut the door and climb in bed, and soon I heard them unlock the door, come inside, and do their usual nightly routine.
They eventually quit coming as I got older, but to this day, I have no freakin' idea what that whole thing was about. The same phenomenon, night after night, for what seemed like forever?! I was
awake when this was happening. I
heard them doing these things and I even
saw them, (kinda'). My best guess is that I was sleepwalking or having night terrors, but man, I hate to think about the spookier possibilities, like a creature or species of creatures that fed on children, and were given form by images from the children's subconscious minds. Nonsense, I know, but if such a creature
existed, and
only little children saw it, and they told
you about it, would you
believe them? ::shudder::
