I often would watch (and still do) horror movies as a kid. They would scare the hell out of me and I hated going to the toilet in the middle of the night in case a werewolf/Freddy Krueger/Rex Harrison's character in Midnight Lace would get me.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that what happened in science fiction/horror is movies was realAnon
- i used to think that i was a werewolf and that at night i played poker with the grim reaper— mike
- i used to believe that every friday night Freddy Kruger was under my bed and he was going to kill me— c
- I used to believe that everything you flushed down the toilet ended up in "Hell".— Abi
- I thought that psychological torture involved forcing people to watch really sad movies!— Elviessa
- I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon