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When I was a child we had the weight from the pendulum of a grandfather clock in an upstairs cupboard, and my two elder sisters told me it was a bomb and to be very careful with it.

I told all my friends and they all came to look at the 'bomb' but did not believe it. I called my sisters to verify my story, at which time they decided to tell the truth. Public humiliation!

Anon

when i was little i use to believe that the furniture would come to life at night. because i would hear it crack. i use to get scared and not breath until i heard my mom cough or move from her room then i would move and not breath again until she did it agian

cindylor

I first grew up in a house with a small patio. In the corner was a small trapdoor that went under the patio. I was terrified - I thought it was a bottomless pit. I never did get to see what was down there before we moved.

William

I used to believe that if I stood on a black tile (we had checkered tiled in my house) that I would trigger a trap (e.g. boulder, knives flying through the air ect.) i always used to dodge around them.

Indiana Jones

I used to believe that there was a giant "grabber" living under the house, who'd grabb me if I sat on the windowsill.

star

I used to believe that when walking on checkered tiles, if i stepped with my heel on one color, then that color would continue under my foot as i was walking. This was only in my head, of course.

LaLaLaLia

i used to believe that people inside the television were doing it live and was amazed because they didnt look sleepy when i watched til in the early morning.

mara

I used to believe when I was little that the room underneath the stairs was where the boogeyman lived with his pets (Which happened to be crocodiles) and at night they used to come out and look for someone to eat.

I used to hide underneath my blankets at night because I didn't want the boogeyman to come and eat me or feed me to his pet crocodiles.

If I had to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I'd take a flashlight and walk very slowly down the stairs. I'd pause for a second before the room under the stairs and then run really fast past it because I used to think he'd jump out and grab me.

Jay

My parents have a small photo album containing our baby pictures that's always been referred to as the Spogbook, it was even printed on the front of it. For years I thought that a Spogbook was a term widely used to mean a small photo album for baby pictures. It was only recently when I used ther term in front of someone outside the family that my mum told me it was actually Spogboek - the Afrikaans for Photo Album which they'd bought when living in Africa in the 70s...

Kate

When I was about 5 we got pink bats put in our roof and i when asked why i was told 'they keep the heat in' which is normal enough exect for the fact that i was scared out of my wits because i was under the impression that there were real bats in out roof. I couldn't sleep properly for months.

Anon

My family was very poor while I was growing up, so my sister and I used to dig holes in our yard to try to find the diamonds in the earth's crust that we learned about in school so we could give them to Mom and Dad so we wouldn't be poor anymore.

Jamie

my grandma had a cupboard upstairs and one directly beneath it dwnstairs. my sister and cousin tld me th@ this was the boogie mans lift & thn 2 prove it they got in but when i ran dwnstairs they wernt ther so i ran bak upstairs n the cupboard was empty, when i got dwnstairs again i saw them coming out of the "lift" and for ages was convinced that it was an actual lift!

kt

I used to believe that the Secret 7 and Famous 5 really did exist (as well as the characters from Brambley Hedge) and lived in the bottom of my garden. I don't know quite how I thought they survived down there but we did have a shed and I was sure that they had their meetings in it.

Ellen

ok i was the youngest of four enough said right their. well i looked up to my older sisters n brother. they used to scare me all the time with the lil white dog they would always say oh michelle dont put ur feet down or the lil white dog will eat u. this went on from when i was 3 to the time i was 7. nice brother and sister huh

michelle

I used to believe that I left an invisible string trailing behind me everywhere I walked, and I didn't like for it to get tangled. Whenever I walked around a chair or table, I'd be careful to walk around it the opposite direction before leaving the room so that my string wouldn't get wrapped around it and trip me later!

Erin