When i was little, we had skunks on our patio, and it began to smell in our nice basement. so i overheard mom and dad talking, and they said something about the skunks getting into the basement. so i was scared the skunks would come up and kill me when i was sleeping at night.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- when i was little i used to believe that darth vador lived in my basement, and i was scared to go down there.— Jilli
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- I used to believe a spider monster was in my basement— Kelly bulanek
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette