My mother always used to get mad at us for leaving the freazer open (which is in the garage) so she told us that freazer animals would get inside if we left it open! Naturaly, being the loving person I was (haha) I left it open so they could come in.
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Not really a belief, but more a confussion.
As a young kid, when I'd get out of the bath, I'd never know whether to towel dry my hair or my body first.
If I dried my body first, my hair would drip onto my freshly dried body, and if I dried my hair first it would begin to soak up the water from my wet body.
It's a wonder I ever managed to dry at all.
Having my parents constantly warning me not to press the red record button I used to think that when you press the record button on the remote control that the house would blow up.
My mom used to say my teeth would turn yellow if I swallowed a lot of toothpaste. I didn't believe that, so I decided to test it out myself. I must have eaten about half of the tube. Obviously I got really sick. Still can't look at toothpaste the same way.
When i was about 8, my bedroom (being the largest) was generally used a s a junk room. My Parents stored random stuff there. I became increasingly terrified of a partlcular portrait that was placed in there, even so that i used to turn it around before bed, so it wouldn't "stare" at me. Funny thing was... it was a portrait of me!!!
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i used to think that "things" were under my bed. So at night i would turn out the light, and leap about 4ft onto my bed so the "things" couldn't grab me!
When I was little(and until now..im 13)
i used to think that whenever I slept on my bed,the boogeyman would put his thin finger through the holes of my headboard and pull my hair.Until today,i never put my hair close to the headboard
When I was 8 I couldn't sleep one night. But then, I heard some kind of a low sounding growl that my young mind translated as a lion underneath my bed. It wouldn't stop growling, so I made a mad dash into my parents' room screaming "MOM! MOM! THERE'S A LION UNDER MY BED!"
It turns out that the "lion" was my dad snoring. We bug him about it to this day.
When I get in the shower and the water is cold, I change the temperature as quickly as possible. Why? Becasue i've always been scared of cold shower water. Not cold sink water, just shower water. For some unknown reason, I feel like there are dead bodies soaking in the cold water, but not the warm water.
I used to believe…
do you remember Aladdin by disney?
if so, do you remember the evil guy when he was pretending to be the old old man in the celler to trick aladdin?
well i was So so scared of him and until i was about 8 or 9 or maybe even 10, i thought that old man lived in the cupboard, so i would always run in and out of the bathroom as if he was going to open the cupboard to grab me.. -shiver- i still think that guys is scary tho.. =D lol
You know those "Yuck" stickers that your mom used to put on the medicine cabinet and stuff... Well, I thought those stickers were people that had touched whatever was inside of the cabinet, and had been stuck on the sticker to show me how bad it was to touch that dangerous stuff. When I told my mom what I thought, she encouraged it, and I believed it until I reached middle school!
in my old home, (right now i'm 11 and my parents are divorced) my dad used to tell me that there were "little people" living in the walls. i used to believe him and i would even put crumbs out at night for them to eat!
i used to have a bed with drawers underneath the mattress that went all the way to the floor (so there was no underneath). Anyway, there was a big narrow "drawer" that went all the way to the back that was empty, and i used to believe that if aliens or monsters came, i could hide in there and they would never be able to find me.
I used to believe that water from the drain in the bathtub all went to China. I've subsequentialy installed that belief in my own son and only today considered whether Chinese parents tell their children that water from the bathtub all flows to America.... hehehe
One bathtime when I was 4 there must have been rust in the pipes or something because the water came out slightly reddish-brown. I assumed we were getting ginger ale to bathe in.
Unlike most children who think that monsters live in their closets, I thought that ET lived in mine. I thought that ET was really scary, so I'd avoid my closet at all costs.
Once my dad told me that Egor was living in our celar. I didnt know at the time that Egor was Dr. Frankenstiens lab assisstant. Instead, i thought he was a giant dead eagle, and was forever remembered as the Big Ghost Eagle name Egor that lived in our cellar.
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
Until I was about 9, I believed that there was a little girl named Jaamie who lived in the air conditioning vents on the ceiling. I thought she had black hair and green eyes, and that she got trapped up there a long long time ago and was very scared. I also thought that "Jamie" was mad at me and wanted to kill me, because I never went up there and saved her. One time I told my mom this idea, and she just looked at me like that was the wierdest thing she had ever heard.
Most people know that there is an emergency shutoff switch for oil burners, usually surrounded by a red plate. When I was younger, I was told not to touch that switch... ever. My belief was that if you flipped that switch, the oil burner would blow up.