I use to believe that my basement was filled with water halfway up the stairs with elephants waiting to catch me if I dared open the basement door(which my mother told us not to).
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- I used to believe a spider monster was in my basement— Kelly bulanek
- when i was little i used to believe that darth vador lived in my basement, and i was scared to go down there.— Jilli
- I used to believe that my head was filled with hair waiting to grow.— Poppy