around the house

My mom still believes that the dryer eats stray socks, and then gives them up years later. She found a black sock in the dryer and thought it was her ex-husbands', and he had died years ago!

me

I used to have a big bookcase in my room, and whenever I heard a noise that I couldn't explain (air conditioning kicking in, etc.) , I thought that it came from behind that bookcase. Eventually I realized that there was a man behind my bookcase who was as flat as a pancake that tried to lure me out with his weird noises. Even when we moved, I imagined that a mover guy was trapped behind the bookcase and became the new Pancake Man. I was terrified of the Pancake Man until my mom decided to paint my room and moved the bookcase away from the wall. When I asked her where the Pancake Man was she gave me weirdest look and asked me what I meant. I'm still afraid to look behind bookcases...

cucumber

When i was younger, I thought that those buttons on the outlets would destroy our house. If I pressed the yellow one, our house would collapse, and the red one would make it blow up.

Jules

When I was about 3 to 5 my dad told me that there were people in our dining room table and so I believed him and named them and I made up and town and what I thought there lives were like.

Alison Uyeda

I used to believe there was a little man that lived in the mailbox. He would catch the mail and make sure it went to the right place.

Anon

when i was around ten my family and i would visit our aunt's house a lot. she had a fireplace and we didn't so i wasn't used to them. in the winter her fireplace was always lit. it petrified me. i was convinced that at any moment the entire house would be a blaze. so i would tell my mother that i wanted to go outside and play even though there was nothing but a driveway and some trees. so i would stand in the driveway in the freezing cold for hours waiting for my family to burn up.

valerie

I used to believe that through the top shelf of the walk-in closet in my parents bedroom, there was a secret door that lead to a movie theatre. And it was called "Super Cinema". Don't remember many other details. I think the idea came first from a dream.

Scandia

When I was 4 I thought that my pillows would come alive and have a tea party with MY tea set!! Why couldn't they bye their own!!?!?!??!!

Elizabeth

i used to believe the sound from a piano came from the keys hitting a stuff called "sploosh"{wierd, huh?}.

exploding buttox

Until I was probably in 3rd grade, I planned on having a force-field a la Star Wars around my home when I grew up :-)

Temptress

I used to believe that laundry baskets were little race cars and I would sit in them and make the noises and pretend to steer the wheel.

Bridgette

When I was about 8 years old I would help my mom would put my dirty clothes in the washing machine. But when I throw my clothes in the washing machine I would see my clothes swirl round and round. I would think that my clothes would go throw pipes and accidentally go in my neghbors washing machine. But now I'm 16 and now better.

Julia

When I was 3 my parents were selling our house and we had a guy come to look at it and shortly thereafter we moved and i thought that he had stolen our house. So we saw him at a store once and i asked why he had stolen our house.

Isobel

I used to believe that when my parents said about a 'walk-in wardrobe' they were saying a 'walking' wardrobe! I was bloody terrified!

Unusual being

When I was younger my grandma once told me that my grandfather (who had died years before) turned the lights on for us at her house. When I got a little older I realized that her lights were on a timer.

Allison from Lisle

I used to like lying in front of our fake fire to keep myself warm (not a fan of cold weather), and i used to lie really close. My brother told me that my spine would melt if i kept doing this. And again i still feel uncomfortable doing this :P

Ashley