When i was little, i had a guy jump out at me from underneath the leaf piles on the side of the street. This was on halloween. For a while after that, i thought that people were actually buried in those leaf piles, but later i found out the truth.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to believed that the clouds in the sky were floating piles of mash potatoes .— Funny Guy
- When I was young I had a plan to shoot big piles of paper up to the sun so it would never burn out.— Waterbottle
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought the cremations were for people that wanted their love ones buried at home.— Helen
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe that people were buried in "grates".— Grate Job