My mother told me that there were monsters living in electrical sockets so if I stuck my hand in the wholes the monsters would bite my hand off...... I never did it, but everytime I would pass an electrical socket I would try and see the monsters.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- When I was little my dad told me that monsters jump out from spotlights and I belived it...— Cassie
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- There ARE monsters under the bed but they won't eat you so long as you don"t get out of bed before 7am.— Sarah
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- I used to believe that princesses were make-believe like monsters, dragons, and fairies.Anon
- i thougt that mongols were green monsters that suck your eyes out.— danai