When I was about six or seven, Nana used to tell me about "Rawhead Bloodybones". He would break into the houses of children who weren't asleep, cut their heads off and then walk back down the street.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- i used to think water towers were houses for really tall people. I thought they had big heads to.— Alyssa
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- my mom believed when she was little that a street sign that said don't walk meant you better run.— Sara Mclen
- I thought that the "don't walk" sign at crosswalks meant to run across the street as quickly as possible!— richard
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- I used to believe that heads of state had diferent kinds of heads on their shoulders— stupid elado