# The Household Mythology Creatures Thread.... Bear With Me On This... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 5, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453 "2001-05-05T17:49:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/1 "2001-05-05T17:49:34Z")
I for some reason the other day had the phrase “Toaster Gnomes” come to mind. I started thinking of other mythological/hypothetical creatures juxtaposed with household locations/appliances. Examples: Sofa Elves Fridgewraiths Vacuunicorns The Pantry Chupacabra etc. This is about the most mundane and pointless thing I can think of, and I really must share it. I bet you guys can think of really good ones, this IS what the SDMB is all about. And I think this has that “could be a great thread” vibe. Gimme what you got, SDMB. MarxBoy ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/2 "2001-05-05T18:00:13Z")
Tubmummies. Desk Devils. Dopplehangers. Dryer wolves. I like it. My house seems so much more… populated now. Thanks, MarxBoy. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/3 "2001-05-05T18:04:05Z")
How about these: Bedwyrs - The monsters under the bed The Nylonic Vortex - the place in your dryer that eats up the matches to socks. ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/4 "2001-05-05T18:10:28Z")
**Lint Filter Fairies** **Ice-maker Sirens** (They’re calling right now for me to add them to a margarita) **Oven Orcs** ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/5 "2001-05-05T18:14:08Z")
Doorknob-goblins! ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/6 "2001-05-05T18:18:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by katiekilldare \* > \*\*Doorknob-goblins! \*\* Yeeeeaaahhh. ooh! ooh! Toilet Trolls!! ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/7 "2001-05-05T18:31:04Z")
Blender banshees Bargoyles Underwearwolves ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/8 "2001-05-05T18:34:19Z")
I used to live in a place where many claimed that polar bears stole their bedclothes. I never saw any. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/9 "2001-05-05T18:34:27Z")
My father had us scared of the “barking spiders.” But that’s old. How about **Attic Attilas?** ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/10 "2001-05-05T18:44:45Z")
LMAO, **MrVisible** That will probably remain the undisputed champion post from this thread, which is shaping up to be a good one. (Does MarxBoy dare to dream that one day, HE might be chosen for threadspotting) ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/11 "2001-05-05T19:00:59Z")
hmmm… Computrolls. La-Z-Gnome. Tele-faeries. Table dwarves. And, of course, the inimitable Polaroid Chimeras. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/12 "2001-05-05T20:13:32Z")
Sent me running up the stairs many a time. Especially when my rotten little brother Tommy would turn out the light & lock the basement door. Motto Of The Basement Ghouls— > [@](#): > > All your basement are ours. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/13 "2001-05-06T01:12:45Z")
I shouldn’t even acknowledge the damned Zero Wing reference anymore, but I believe you mean > [@](#): > > All your basement are belong to us ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/14 "2001-05-06T01:14:28Z")
Sorry, with that last post should have been included a new creature. How about… a poultrygeist that inhabits the meat drawer of the fridge? Or Speaker Sprites? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/15 "2001-05-06T01:17:28Z")
I have a Closet Wraith in my walk-in. It eats things. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/16 "2001-05-06T02:02:06Z")
Underpants Gnomes: They steal your nicest pieces of underwear… that reminds me, I’m still missing this really nice expensive thong that matches one of my bras. Has anyone seen it? Closet/Drawer/Storage Space Gremlins: They move stuff around and take bites out of things when you’re not looking. One of my friends found a big bite taken out of one of his CDs with teeth marks and everything… weird. Sock Monkey Klan: They gang up with all your other childhood memorabilia and randomly hide old toys, etc. that you were looking for to either give to someone or display. ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/17 "2001-05-06T03:24:32Z")
Great thread! I have personally experienced “Pipe Dwarves” - they make the noises in your radiator pipes when they swing their dwarf-hammers. And “The Fushes” - only my late grandmother could hear them, but they inhabited the bed in our guest room and said “Fush! Fush!” through the night. ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/18 "2001-05-06T03:35:43Z")
Cereal Dust Fairies Outrageous Odor Wraiths (they’re invisible, but they’re there.) Milk Mummy Change Sprites The Bottom-Of-The-Laundry-Pile Cleaners ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/19 "2001-05-06T04:33:24Z")
Pantry pixies The trolls under the fridge Mystery Meat Manticore: It Came from Beyond the Coleslaw Dust pookas (Harvey! 😃 ) Kitchen kobolds Clutter cluricaunes Lampricauns Sidhets Is anyone else curious as to _what_ prompted the phrase “toaster gnomes” to drift through **Marxboy** ’s mind? ---
**Author:** ![gadgetgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gadgetgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gadgetgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453/20 "2001-05-06T05:04:42Z")
Carpet Trolls- live under carpets/rugs. Cause mysterious lumps to occur as to trip hapless humans. Freezer Fairies- Open the freezer door just after you leave for work to cause all the ice cream to melt by the time you get home. Their secondary repsonsibility is to consume all ice cubes (but one) in any given ice try. The Secret Society of Clock-Watching Witches- Cause stairs to creak, doors to squeak, and windows to slam when someone is trying to sneak past their parent/room mate/signifigant other at an ungodly hour. Denim Munching Hell Hounds- chew holes in all of the knees of my 501s. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-household-mythology-creatures-thread-bear-with-me-on-this/64453.md?page=2)