Well.. Kids are usually afraid of monsters under the bed, but in my case it was a vampire in my closet.
I watched the movie MONSTER SQUAD as a kid, and that's where I got the idea.
He was there every night. I had to sleep with my back to the closet. I was afraid that if the vampire knew that I knew he was there, he would kill me. (I guess it was just his hideout!)
A childhood belief about in my closet

others believed things like this
- I used to think I was a vampire, and that my parents were trying to kill me by making me go to school. — Max
- I seriously used to believe that Bert from Sesame Street lived in my closet and that he was going to kill me.— Liz
- i used 2 believe when i left my closet door open at
night a skelleton would pop out and wave at me— bex - I used to be afraid of Tina Turner. I saw her as a monster or something like that.— Kinha SP
- every time I see a shadow thats not mine I freak out because I think It's a vampire— Dalton Anderson
- When I was little I believed that a night a monster will came and kill me.❤️🥺— @natalia_rd_