You know those little green electric boxes? the ones with the sticker that showed a man getting shocked? I thought that that was a monster that lived in there, and if I got to close to it he would eat me. My parents encouraged this belief so i wouldn't get hurt.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c. - when I was younger I used to believe a serial killer lived in cereal boxes.— laura
- One kid I know believed that because I wear glasses, it wouldn't hurt if he poked my eye.Anon
- i used to believe that a monster lived in the garbage disposal. i would never go near the sink— Whitney
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- I used to belief that mermaids lived in underground drains. Anon