I believed that an alligator lived underneath my bed and that if I let my legs or arms dangle, it would bite them off. I also would check each morning to make sure the carpet hadn't turned into the ocean with sharks circling me.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I used to believe that sharks lived under the pools where the air vents were. — Carol
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.— Missuss D
- I used to believe that if someone lived "overseas", it just meant that they lived by the ocean.Anon
- I used to beleive that all pains were headaches. So for example, I had headaches in my stomach, legs and arms.— James