when my sister was little, there was a period where she would be too scared to go to the loo, cos she thought a rat was going to bite her in her erm, well you know what i mean...ahem. Anyway, it was all because we watched a documentary about rats in London, and there was one bit where it showed how rats sometimes like to crawl in the sewers, up the pipes and out of your toilets into your house to eat food. Straight after the documentary she needed to do a poo, but needless to say she was scared that a rat might be lurking under the lid, swimmimg in the water..
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think True Crime was a documentary TV show and not a genreAnon
- When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- when i was small i thought rats mutated into batsAnon
- I used to believe that your tap water came from the swimmimg pool.— Mimi
- I used to think thats rats put those eye crusties there while I were asleep— Maria
- I used to believe that tangled hair really had rats in it.— Kristy