My uncle once told me that a big cat lived in the movie theater and if you dangled your legs over the chair it would sneak up under you and suck on your legs till they fell off. I was scared of movie theaters for years.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I used to be afraid that "boney Legs", a witch from a story Lived in the toilet. Anon
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - My father told me that Frenchmen had three legs.Anon
- I used to think that a movie is made in realtime. I tought that a 2 hour movie is made in 2 hours.— Alexander