My younger brother would wake up terrified in the night fearing that a random sock lying near his bed would transform into a vicious beaver and attack him.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid my dad told me that in a package of socks there was a right sock and a left sock.— Christina
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- Follow me and I will make you vicious old men.....OOPS that was really fishers of men— oddsox
- I used to believe that the cows owned by my grandfather slept lying on the ground like a human at night.— Eric
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- i used to belive a fever was a beaver crawling in my head i no right?— poe