I can't remember what age it started at but when I was much younger I believed that in my bathtub there lived an octopus. It terrified me, so I hated taking baths!
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- that pickles were octopus legsAnon
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily
- My uncle convinced me that if you ate octopus, the suckers on the tentacles would suck your tongue out— Minnie
- From the Carpenters hit I always sang "calling octopus of interplanetary craft" instead of "occupants".— Paul
- I used to think an evil spirit type thing called Wango lived in my dog. I was terrified of that dog.— Franklin
- I used to think that when people were taking their contacts out that they were taking their eyeball out :) — Jen