When I was young there was a small door in the back of my closet that opened into the attic. To keep me out of there, my grandfather would tell me that if I went between the wooden slats where the insulation was, that I would fall straight into the furnace and burn up. That was enough to keep me out of the attic!
A childhood belief about in my closet

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a mortgage was a big pirates chest that my mom and dad used to keep in the attic. — lou
- I used to think that a family of evil bears lived in my grandparent's attic.— jasonchic
- i used to believe that edward scissorhands lived in our family friend's attic.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that the school attic was full of ghosts and elfs.— Lia
- Once I thought these two teenagers who used to wash my mums car lived in our attic. Hahaha!— Roxanne
- I used to believe that the heat from the furnace came from hell, and that it was a straight drop there.Anon