When my brother and I were 4 and 6, we used to hear the furnace running at night. We called it "the noises" and we thought that if we didn't fall asleep quickly, "the noises" would come upstairs and get us.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to believe in ghosts because I always heard noises comming from the cellar.— Sabrina
- I thought the ball-headed person in the Bic logo was an alien and communicated using alien-like noises.Anon
- when i was a kid, i used to think that if i didn't fall asleep, morning wouldn't comeAnon
- Because of Pocahontas, I grew up believing Native Americans noises sounded like English to Native Americans.Anon
- When I was a child i used to believe that if i did not fall asleep an elf would come for me Anon
- I used to think that when my arm would fall asleep that it was raining inside my armAnon