When I was little I believed that bears lived underground directly below the barricades that block the street when they are being repaired. I figured out later that I had believed that because my mother had said barricades and heard bear caves.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- When I was very young, I believed that houses were carved out of one gigantic block of wood.— tinmanjones
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- i believed that moles wore davy lamps on their heads so they could see underground— Omi
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- I used to think that a family of evil bears lived in my grandparent's attic.— jasonchic