My older brother's room was the basement.
He had me convinced that there were
monsters in it and that I should stay out!
I can't wait till he has kids.
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- My older brother used to tell me that if I "untied" it, I'd fly around the room like a balloon. — Gullible youth
- I used to think that on day light savings time you had to stay up till 2:00am to change the clocks! — Sandy
- I believed we were little kids till we were 17, and at our 18th birthday we woke up as adults.— Hoppip
- My brother used to think that the brushes at automatic car washes were Sulley from Monsters Inc. — RJ
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller