When I was little, my mom used to sit me in front of the TV and put on the 'neverending story'. The wolf scared me to death but, as I later found out, she thought I loved the movie because I always looked so intense. Well, this movie led to frantic dashes up the basement stairs (and still continues to this day if I get paranoid enough) because the wolf in the movie OF COURSE lived in my basement
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- when i was little i used to believe that darth vador lived in my basement, and i was scared to go down there.— Jilli
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - When I was little, I always believed I was safe from the big bad wolf because I lived in a brick house.— Beth
- I used to think that a movie is made in realtime. I tought that a 2 hour movie is made in 2 hours.— Alexander
- I used to think that when a movie was 'based on a true story' it was happening for real then and there— Tom
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie