Just because it's inktober, doesn't mean it's not october. As I've been making line art to expand my portfolio, I'd like to bring up some paranoia I had from my childhood.

I was a very paranoid kid for context. I was worried about something or someone was watching me at all times. Be if it was through the windows at night, from my peripheral vision, and from inside the house. At night I had to dread coming near any window that didn't have curtains to where they it made me hold my breath from the fear I felt of seeing that thing watching me. This fear I had wasn't about what I could see at the moment, rather it was fear from what I will see after the moment. I imagined this creature appearing humanoid with these piercing eyes watching me very closely for every move I make. The expression it had was this kind of scorn, anger (I think?) as if disapproving of about everything I'm doing there. I didn't understand why or how it came to be there but it was there watching me specifically. I didn't like this monster at all and it might have been the one that whispered my name from the closet from when I was like 11? I don't know, but it's gone away when I got older.

Any of you have any imaginary monsters you were paranoid about as a kid?