when i was very little, like 2, 3, 4, i was absolutely terrified of the boogeyman. my older sister told me that he moved to florida (far away from where we lived, in massachusetts). i was never afraid of him after that.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to believe the boogeyman lived in my nose— Shelby
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- My dad told me that in Florida, snow is orange.— Belle
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- I used to believe that cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.— ella
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon