My mom use to tell me when I was about 4 if I didn't go to bed their was a big lion in the living room that would come and get me and it would eat me or put me in a adoption home
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to think that a sea lion was a hybrid of a seal and a lion.Anon
- I used to believe the living room furniture would party after we all went to sleep.— Ellen
- I used to believe hat the news readers could see into my living room so i sed to undress behind the couch.— henri
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- I used to believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.— Kent
- when i was little i thought my cat would turn into a lion when he got older.Anon