At the mall in my hometown, there were occasionally doors along blank walls and someone told me that monsters lived behind them, and that if you stayed in the mall until after dark, the monsters would come out and accuse you of shoplifting so they could have an excuse to eat you.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- I used to believe that The Mall Of America was in Canada. — Adam
- I used to believe that mall directories were magic because they always knew where you were.— eric
- I used to think that a strip mall was where you shop naked.— WD
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- When I was little my dad told me that monsters jump out from spotlights and I belived it...— Cassie