After watching the film Darby O'Gill and the little people, I was terrified of Banshees (even worse since I live in Ireland and this is supposedly where they come from) I thought if you heard one it meant that someone in your house was going to die, and I used to be terrified at night when I heard the wind howling
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an animated film meant that the film had live animals in it.— reverb
- I used to think that the wind that made a howling noise was a ghost.— Febi
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy