I used to believe that whenever i was on my staircase and i turned the light off, there was a big sort of monster/rat thing in the washing machine room that was on the stairs, so i'd run down the stairs as fast as i could.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I would turn the lights off and then leg it up the stairs thinking a monster would be chasing me.Anon
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - I used to believe that if I put my arm in the washing machine while it was going that it would rip off.— Hannah
- I used to believe I could fly when I was about four, until I fell down the stairs.— Sarah
- I used to think you could die if you jumped half way down the stairs. Anon
- I used to believe that if I went down the stairs slowly a red eyed skeleton would come and run after me.— Melly2bee