When I was little, I believed that monsters came out when the lights are off and dissapeared when the light turned on. For about a year, I always opened the door a crack, then use a stick to turn on the light before going in!
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart