I remember seeing a film of lobsters underwater on Sesame Street. The claws and legs really freaked me out. Somehow I decided that it was a picture of what lived behind our walls in our house (especially near light switches), so I was scared to touch the walls.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I sused to believe dinosaurs lived in my walls.— Joshua
- I remember being scared of the ocean for a while as a little kid. I thought lobsters would pinch my toes.— Flipper
- I believed God lived in a specific crack in one of the walls of my church — Blake
- I seriously used to believe that Bert from Sesame Street lived in my closet and that he was going to kill me.— Liz
- When I was little I thought that a "wallflower" was a kind of flower that grew on walls.— A. Nonny-Muss
- I once believed that the walls and ceilings were completely jam packed with plumbing and wiring.— David