when we were younger, my dad told me and my sisters that C.H.U.D.'s (cannabilistic Human Underground Dwellers) lived in the sewer, so we would jump over those sewer grates on the sidewalk so tey wouldn't snatch us.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!— All Grown Up Now!
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- I used to belief that mermaids lived in underground drains. Anon
- I used to believe that people were buried in "grates".— Grate Job
- I used to believe that a morman was a scary person who lived underground(actually called a moleman).— Mike
- I used to believe that human lived inside the planet earth and not on its surface.— Giancarlo