When I was younger, I read a book called "Tailypo." It was a children's book. In the book the monster's tail was cut off by an older man, so the monster came back and ate the man in his bed. I used to believe that I would wake up and see glowing red eyes right before the creature would eat me.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha
- I used to believe that copying definitions out of a book counted as plagiarism!Anon