When you put your ear flat on a spring mattress, you can hear the springs adjusting themselves. As a kid, I automatically believed that the sound was a smiley, friendly butcher man behind the deli counter at the grocery store chopping up some ham for my mom. ?
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon
- I used to believe that Casper the Friendly Ghost lived in my dad's car.— Michael
- I used to think if you messed with your belly button too much, It would pop out and you would spring a leak.— Jessica
- when I was a child I used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds of the fruit they would spring up on you.— Gabriely Cinthia Schittler
- I used to think that if someone gave you acid, you could completely counter the effects by taking an antacid.— abracadaver
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert