When I was little, only 3 or 4, like most infants, I didn't understand movies too well, or at least, what the characters were saying. So for years I seriously beleived that the oompah-loompas in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory were serial killers or something, and they were always on the other side of the Chocolate River, so you couldn't get to them. I thought that they would set up booby traps for the people's kids, and then kidnap the parents and kill them or something, and the parts that involved being in the same room with a lot of oompah-loompahs was that they were in an oompah-loompah jail touring it. They would mock the rest of the group after they kidnapped someone with scary little songs and dances, so up until I was, like, 7, I was terrified of the little buggers, and avoided the movie. Then I saw the movie and understood the words and all was better.
A childhood belief about films

others believed things like this
- I believed serial killers were people who poisoned cereal to kill others.— Matthew
- I used to believe that if i bought a Wonka Bar I would find a golden ticket and get to see Willy Wonka.— Sally
- I used to think that serial killers were "cereal killers" and would kill you by poisoning you cereal.— Jello
- I used to believe that serial killers would jump out of cereal boxes and kill me...— Amanda
- I used to believe Serial killers would break into your house and stab/'kill' your cereal.— mary
- I thought that serial killers had serial numbers like products did so the cops could identify them easier. — C