We moved into a new house when I was six and it had a very dark, spooky basement. My mom told me never to go down there. I was really interested in Greek mythology at the time and I was convinced that the River Styx ran through our basement and that's why my mom wouldn't allow me down there.
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 all foriegn languages were greek if you learned greek you could speak them all
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