Can a child's imagination thrive in a creatively dry environment?

I had an interesting thought the other day. Who here when they were a kid thought that there was a monster in the closet, or under the bed, or something other creepy crawling somewhere closeby? I NEVER got the monster under the bed or in the closet stuff, now I thought there was a witch outside of my window, which turned out to be the shadow of a plastic bag stuck in the tree out there. There was also the stint when I was 6 and thought there was a serial killer hiding upstairs so I never wanted to go up for bed, but I digress. Through the centuries a lot of cultures have had a lot of superstitions which may have been the origins for kids and their monsters, and yet today when we 'know better' there are still a lot of kids like that, they're afraid of the dark because they think there are monsters out there something, or ghosts or something else like that.

Now here's what I want to know, if a child was raised in an environment where there were no ghost stories, no ancient mythology, no spook shows, nothing of any sort, nothing except cold hard facts their whole lives, and they never even heard of monsters, would they still be convinced that there was one in their room? What's everyone think?

Anything is possible but if they were never exposed to thoughts of the supernatural they probably wouldn't worry about monsters under their bed.

Like Alan said, they wouldn't worry about the monsters under the bed if they were not exposed to anything about that.

For me, I feared under my bed and the dark, and kind of still do, and my fears stemmed from seeing the KKK rally in person. So, I think that real life experience can be just as spooky as tales and superstitions.

I remember after seeing the 'Thriller' video when I was four years old, thinking that Michael's werewolf was lurking in the house, waiting to catch me alone. I agree that if kids weren't exposed to monsters, they wouldn't fear them.