There was a creepy old photo of my great-great-grandparents hanging on the wall in the hallway directly across from the bathroom in the house I grew up in. As my grandmother was convinced that I would "get up to mischief" (who knows what she thought I'd do) in any room with the door closed, I wasn't allowed to close the bathroom door. I'd pee or poo as quickly as I could, averting my eyes from the creepy old folks in the picture, then flush-n-run like a mad thing -- I thought the people in the creepy picture could see me in the bathroom and would kill me if they knew I knew they could...
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- I used to think that mannequins were real people who had been beheaded. Creepy thought....
Anon - My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- I used to think that Hadrian also built the Great Wall of China.— Spacey
- I used to think that The Great Wall of China was made out of porcelain.— Morten Vestergaard
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle