"To a child, images of hellfire and gnashing of teeth are actually very real; they're not metaphorical at all."
"It's not even about overcoming the fears as a child; it's about bonding with said child, telling this story to make them feel better."
"Both boys ran through the yard, ran inside, and locked the door."
"Time changes perspective, so something that terrified you as a child would be viewed as a friend in adulthood."
"I remember being actively scared of him growing up which I don't think I can say about any of the other villains."
"As a child, nighttime was something to truly fear. Somewhere in the back of my mind, it still is."
"She just wants to protect him from the Scary Monsters."
"It’s no accident that one of the most widely reported childhood fears is of a shark lurking in the deep end of a swimming pool."
"He can't get us now if we wake up my parents. We're going to be screwed."
"Five Nights at Freddy's tapped into the childhood uncanniness that is Chuck E Cheese animatronics, ramped it up to 11 on the creepy scale, and added hints of lore to keep people interested beyond just the atmosphere and gameplay."
"I will say, the scariest thing that happens when you're a kid is when an adult suddenly gets very serious."
"We won't ever see what monsters are under the bed, so we'll always be running."
"She's finally able to defeat the monster in her closet."
"Meanwhile, Lauren refuses to sleep with her Pooka doll, but Becky puts on a Pooka mask and reassures her that there’s nothing to be afraid of."
"There's no such thing as monsters under the bed, okay?"
"This is what our children are thinking: 'No one's coming to save me when I'm in a situation where I'm unsafe, what do I do?'"
"How did that happen? Right, how did we come to a point in society where that word is even, you know, is into this again a concern of children that young? That 81 percent of girls are afraid of that, subhanallah."
"Our six-year-old daughter doesn't want to sleep in her room anymore because she's scared of monsters and ghosts."
"When I was a kid though, it's really tough because it's more like what didn't scare me when I was a kid."
"Remember that feeling you get when you were a kid and turned off the light in the room, went dark, and you were sure you were positive that there was something in the dark just out of sight watching, waiting for you to turn your back on it?"
"I understand now that she's not doing a to torture me or because she doesn't trust me and she's doing that because this is her fear from worldly childhood."
"Imagine you're in the woods and then you wake up to kids crying, that's [ __ ] creepy."
"Sometimes children are afraid of the dark."
"Things can be scary at first for children, but as good parents, we got to just kind of point them in the right direction and hope for the best."
"Every dark and mysterious entity and nocturnal vision from my childhood came flowing back with a vengeance."
"When I was little, I was afraid of a lot of things. I didn't have to be though. They were all in my head, I just didn't know that yet."
"There's a monster in my closet," she said.
"Why are we afraid of kids? Why horror movies use kids so often and why it's really effective?"
"I'm the reason the boogeyman begs his momma to look under his bed."
"I used to be afraid of the dark a lot as a kid."
"Now whenever my daughter comes to my room claiming she's seen a ghost or a monster, I just let her crawl into bed with me."
"She had an absolute fear of werewolves growing up, and I don't think it ever left."
"I've always had some sort of dread about existence and death even from when I was little."
"Seriously, I mean, when parents let you watch horror movies when you're little, you instantly become afraid of all your animals, your stuffed animals, my dolls."
"When I was a younger child, I was deathly afraid of the typical things: monsters in my closet or something hiding underneath my bed."
"As kids, most of us had a fear of something creepy hiding under our beds."
"I don't have to worry about the monsters in my closet anymore."
"The fear of seeing a ghost like that at the end of the hallway is the reason I started running from the stairs to my bedroom at night."
"Those are the most frightening moments for children."
"Are you sure there are no monsters? Not even the bear?"