One time as a child I had a high fever and was dilerious. My brother Bruce thought it wopuld be funny to get under my bed and slowly pull the covers off of me. I thought there was a witch under my bed that would get you if your skin was exposed. It freaked me out so bad that even now as an adult I have to have at least a sheet covering me.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you slept with the covers covering your neck, vampires couldn't bite you. — Moot
- When I was a child, I thought that grown-ups were adult.— Gloria
- My brother thought that one adult was a dult and that one alert was a lert.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon