My uncle used to tell me the shoe-box under his bed had smurfs (cartoon characters) living in it. Unfortunatly he couldn't show me because they would disappear in the light. I spent hours whispering to them so they wouldn't get lonely. [I never did look in the box, OR find out what was in it!]
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I used to believe that smurfs were real. I never ate mushrooms. I still don't eat them.Anon
- I used to believe that the Bible was written by Moses, with God whispering everything in his ear, in English. — Jj
- i used to believe that the smurfs lived in ordinary mushrooms and i would never eat them!!!— eimear
- I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world. Anon