I'd jump off my bed a good 3 feet to the floor out of reach of anything under there. Y'know, just in case. I think I got over it when I started storing books under there -- you can't be scared of a place when you know what's down there.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- when i was a child i used to think that my belly button was for storing smarties— GemSue
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- I used to believe that flea markets were a place people sold fleas, or the place was infested with fleas— Kelley
- Once I told everyone that I saw a clock reach 1:60.— flojo
- i used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon