when I was about 7 I thought that if you left the lid up when you flushed the toliet the loch ness monster could come up and get you...a pretty common idea for a kid, but what makes my tale weirder still (or perhaps not for the media centric adult Ive become) was that I was convinced Id see a World In Action (bit like 60 Minutes if you're American) show all about this so it MUST be true!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I thought that Loch Ness was actually Loch Nest because it was like the monster's nest— Dietrich Corby
- I thought that on the show "American Chopper" they built helicopters.— Alex319
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- I used to believe that killer bees would take over the world by the time I was an adult.— Kristy O.
- Looking back at it, the belief that dogs eat cats is a pretty funny idea. I used to believe it myself.Anon
- I used to think True Crime was a documentary TV show and not a genreAnon