It wasnt mine, but as a child my great grandmother had a fear of thunderstorms. She believed that every metal object in the house was a risk, she would put the cutlery drawer down the end of the garden and hide herself under the table with her apron over her head!....
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I used to believe as a child that t-storms (aka thunderstorms) where actually tea bags falling from the sky.— Samantha
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- When I was a child, I thought that the Heavy Metal was Satanic music.Anon
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- As a child I always wondered why I could see everyone else's face and not mine.— Amit