When i was four years old, I asked my Dad why the house was being pebble-dashed. He told me that it was so that if the world ended, our house wouldn't fall down. I spent my entire childhood living in fear of Armageddon from that moment on.

Louisa

When I was a kid, I used to think that "wall to wall carpeting" meant that a room had carpet everywhere - on the floor, the walls, and the ceiling.

I always wanted to see a room with wall to wall shag carpeting.

Lyle

When I was about 4 years old, my mother told me somthing like "if your sunglasses gets broken, they can be fixed", meaning that if the glasses fell out of the frame it, one could just put them back again. I went out and started hitting my glasses with a rock... (My parents yelled at me just because i missunderstood.. BUHUU!)

Aikheel

When i was little, i used to wonder what happened to 'upstairs' when no-one was around to see it...I thought things were only there if someone was looking at them. Therefore, when you walk down the stairs, upstairs vanishes until the next time somene walks up there...

Kelly

Once my two older brothers told me that we had huge rats with rabies living in our house, and that if you stepped on the floor they'd come out and bite you and you'd get rabies and die instantly. I only walked on furniture until my parents told me the truth...

Can't sleep, rats will eat me...

my dad told me once when the power was off, and i was looking in the fridge...that, "If you keep the door open too long, and the light is off, the food will get mad at you and jump out at you." so, until i was about 11, i always asked someone else to go into the fridge to get something for me.

Breyon

when i was little, about 4 or 5 i used to think that my light bulb was an alien. i dont really kno why. i guess it did kinda look like one. i was always terrified to go to sleep face up because i was afraid to wake up looking at it. one day i told my sister and she hasnt let me forget it till this day!

i will never mistake a light bulb 4 an alien ever again!!!!!

when i was 6, me and my best friend were told by an evil next door neighbor that if you ring the doorbell the house will explode. we were terrified of doorbells to this day

nicole and melanie

I used to watch a lot of spy movies when I was young, so I thought if I pressed certain cabinet handles and doorknobs, a secret door would open somewhere in the house.

spiderluver

My perents used to have an indoor ficus tree. I belived if I went behind it, I would be transported to another dimension. In this new world there were huge monsters made of mud!

Jessica

When I was little I always went to my grandma's house while my mom was at work. My grandma has this 'candy drawer' in her kitchen and she would always have candy in there. Sometimes I would sneak into the kitchen and grab a couple Hershey Kisses and put them in the garbage can so the garbage man could have some candy too! I also poured pop into there...incase he was also thirsty.

Raena

I used to believe that there was a tiny person who lived in my refrigerator who turned the light on when i opened the door, and shut it off when i closed it. I believed this for years until eventually the fridge got old and one day the light didnt turn on and in panic I asked my older sister if the little man in the fridge had died or have moved away and she showed me that the light bulb had blew.

dollface

My siblings and I would play a game by running around the house flipping light switches on and off. My parents kept getting irritated and finally told us that each time we flipped the switch, it would cost 10 cents. So to save 10 cents for our parents, we'd flip the switch on and never turn it off. They didn't realize this until a few months later and had to explain they actually paid for the time the light was on and not the actual flip of the switch.

Anon

When I was still small enough to use a crib, it always seemed at naptime that the garbage truck was rolling down the alley near my room to pick up trash. Whenever it approached, I seriously believed that it would make an abrupt left toward my house and crash through the bedroom wall just to scoop me up in its claw and crush me in its compactor. I always talked to my Bert doll and held him in my arms when I heard the screaming and of its inner components approaching..."it's okay, Bert. It won't come to get us today..."

garbage pail kid

I used to believe that books would get a headache if you put them back on the shelf upside down. I still can't bring myself to do it.

Eda

I used to believe that there was a tiny soldier in the electric outlet, because one time I stuck my finger in the outlet and it felt like a pin poked me. I imagined a guard with a bayonet inside guarding the wall or something.

Jessi

When I was very little, my sister told me that there were crocodiles under the deck next to our garage just to scare me. I believed her and decided to peek under the deck. The people who lived in the house before we did had a dog. There was a dog toy under the deck, so I thought that the dog got eaten by the crocodiles. I was scared half to death and quickly ran to the other side of the house in hiding.

now addicted to monkeys

I used to believe that the remote control could control all the things in my house, including my dog.

Felipe

I used to believe that a person could fix ANYTHING with Scotch tape.

Felix

I used to believe that when you bought a house, the people who owned that house had to move into yours. It used to amaze me that so many people could find someone else that wanted to swap houses with them. It wasn't until I was about 11 that I realised that wasn't how it worked

Bec :o)