well the stairs to my basement have no back, it's just a step then a board connecting it to the next step, well when i was little i always thought that the trix bunny and the lucky charms guy and count chocula would grab my ankles pull me under and eat me! so i would ALWAYS run up and down the stairs super fast.. i was terrified!
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- I used to believe I could fly.
All I had todo was step of a flight of stairs and I'd be walking in the air...— Dolly - I had my mom buy a box of lucky charms because I thought the little leprechaun would be inside. — Catherine
- When very little I completely believed the mascot for Lucky Charms was the Almighty God.— Brendan
- I used to belive that zombie hands would burst trough the floor and grab my ankles.Anon
- When I was little i thought that seconds were so fast that you couldn't count them.— Baby
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.— classroom 43