After watching the horror movie Humanoids From the Deep when I was 6, I thought they would come out of the nearby lake and come kill me. I was relieved when I remembered how long it took to drive to the lake and I figured it would take them a long time to walk to my house.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- i used to think if you stared long enough at the sun (until it looked blue) you could kill it— sean
- I thought the mole on my arm was from a bug pooping on my arm a long time agoAnon
- I thought Viagra was an allergy medicine for a really long time.Anon
- I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon