When I was 3 or 4, we lived in a small flat so when I went to bed I could hear the tv going in the next room.
About half an hour after I went to bed, A medical drama called GP came on tv that my mother watched religiously. I have no idea why, but I truly believed that if I was still awake when GPs theme song began, a ghost would appear in my room and kill me.
I was often still awake so I screwed my eyes tightly shut and pretended to be asleep even though I knew the ghost would know I was faking. I just had to keep my eyes closed and hope for the best.
I believed this until I was about 8 altho When I was 4 we moved to a bigger house, and I couldnt hear the tv anymore, so I stopped being scared.
A childhood belief about ghosts
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless
- The Kim Carnes song called 'Bette Davis Eyes' well my dad used to sing "She's got Dickie Davis Eyes" Anon
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- I believed that the pictures on my nighties came alive at night and played in my room while i was asleep!!Anon
- if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.— claire