Something Under the Bed

I vote for calling it The Thing Under The Bed instead.

Hasn't this already been done?

Has it?

I'm not sure if it's been done exactly like that; but it's been touched. The one scene I can think of that's pretty similar is the evil clown pulling the kid underneath the bed in Poltergeist.

Things do like to hide underneath beds, you know.

It's a very common problem!

The monster child in Pet Semetary hid under the bed and then cut Fred Gwynne's achille's tendon.

When I was a little kid, my hamster escaped. A few days later my sister was folding clothes standing by her bed, with her bare feet sticking underneath it.

We found the hamster when it bit one of her toes.

"Gage, is that you"?

did we get spammed by someody in the middle east?

True story--

I was like 6 or 7, when we lived in Georgia. Until I was like 8 and my dad finally realized the crap she put me through and her rights were terminated, my biological mother used to punish me by making me watch gruesome horror movies, whatever freaky sh*t she could get her hands on (needless to say, I was a nervous, paranoid, friggin' schizo kid. Who grew up to me a nervous, paranoid, not-quite-as-schizo adult... LOL).

I wouldn't walk up to my bed, thanks to some movie about tiny pink monsters that grabbed some kid and ate him under the bed. Or go to the toilet alone, thanks to Ghoulies, etc. So one night, I went to get into bed and did my usual running leap, and was nearly asleep. The next thing I knew, something slammed across my legs.

Of course my parents inssted I was dreaming, but dreams don't leave a perfect, even line of bruises across my shins!

Oh god, that's awful!

Yes, we did get spammed but i fixed it! Damned ay-rabs!

I do think children are far more... er, likely, to see things and have experiences like that. Not sure if we're making it up or seeing what's really there... but it definitely happens.

Yeah. I think it's a good mix of a kid's mind taking something that DID happen and because they don't see it all the way or just don't understand it (or their biological mother slipped acid into the mac and cheese...) so their mind uses whatever fodder is there to complete the story.

I'm sort of playing around with that idea in one of my books right now.

That was very interesting spam, by the way! Wonder what it said? LOL

I think kids see things because they haven't been on this planet long enough to "forget".