When my dad was a little kid he thought that there was a person in the basement that would stack the steps back up for the escalator.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- When I first saw "brb" on an im I thought the person burped, not that they would be right back.Anon
- I used to believe that if I didn't jump off the escalator in time I would be chopped up like mince.— Jodie
- I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to believe that anonymous was a person, and I thought, "Gee, this person writes a LOT of poems!"— Katie Albano
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon