the boogeyman!

[Das Mole]

basically...list people that you were scared of when you were a kid. or scary people you made up. or people that you're still afraid of. just for fun. and to see what an idiot you were when you were 6 years old.

here's a good one:
CHESTER THE MOLESTER. we live by a playground/park. we have for the past 4 years. one day, one of my neighbors made up a story about an old bum that lived in the woods- chester the molester- to scare his little brother. it didn't work. anytime something weird happens, or there's something creepy in the woods, it's blamed on chester the molester. in fact, we went to the tennis courts today, and there was a woody area behind us. a ball went flying a few feet in, and i picked it up, and there was this path. so i looked down the path, and about ten feet down, there was this clearing w/a chair. an old, dingy, beat up metal chair. one of those foldy ones. might've had chains tied to it. don't remember, but it might as well have, b/c it was creepy as hell. so my little brother says "hey, it looks like chester the molester moved".

let's see...and another time, we were around the park, on the walking path, and there was this shopping cart on the edge of the woods (there's a jewel-osco two blocks down). we were pretty sure it was b/c chester took it.

and a week or two ago, there was this bum sitting by the pond eating a sandwich, and everybody was like "oh my god! it's chester the molester!"

there've been multiple other spottings of things...you know, crop signs, alien sightings, children randomly disappearing for days on end and coming back home w/their face half eaten off. all have been blamed on chester.
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[James]

Wow...

When I was really young I used to be afraid of monsters under my bed
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[Das Mole]

oh yeah. i remember another one. we got the game "clue" when i was...i think 7. or something. anyway, we played it and then i went to sleep that night, but i couldn't get to sleep b/c i thought maybe mrs.peacock was going to come out of the closet w/the revolver and shoot me.
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[James]

You should have bought a themed version (e.g. Simpsons), that would have been less scary
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[Das Mole]

i don't think they had those then. maybe. either way, i was scared out of my pants.
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[Indie Skater]

Well, I'm still scared of monsters under my bed....hehe. Joking. No, I think I used to be scared of the baddies who used to kill the Powder Rangers. (Thats what I used to call them) Welcome to my world.
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