I used to think an aligator lived under my bed and if my hands or feet hung down, it would nibble on them.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- I thought chicken's feet were witch's hands — Edward
- If you hung upsides down, your liver would turn over.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 when you died no matter what your tongue hung out the side of your mouth. Anon
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless