I used to believe that cracks in walls, floors, sidewalks, whatever could join up and move to form scary faces.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that it rained worms, because the sidewalks were always covered with them after a rainfall.— Miss Naive
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie