My Stepmother led me to believe, at the young age of 6, that if I did not finish my dinner the "Sleastacks" from "Land of The Lost" would come get me. Talk about nightmares.... :)
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!— Tiara 10
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- I used to think that
"The land of make believe"
was
"The land of baked beans."— Baked Bean! - When I was a young boy I thought when we cried or when we laughed we won or we lost one minute of our life. — loulou83
- I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-landAnon
- I used to believe that if you licked ice-cream, it would never finish. Anon