My best friend used to always tell me these weird stories, and I'd always believe them. For a long time we believed in the "SHOE FAIRY" - if you threw your shoe on the roof, the shoe fairy would come and bring it back down, so one day we tried it. The only thing that happened was we got in trouble for throwing our shoes on the roof.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die— milena
- When I was a child I used to believe that if some shoe was upside down, someone in my family could die.— Camila C.
- I used to believe that the tooth fairy was some weird old guy with a hot dog cart.— Matt
- that the nose fairy, evil cousin to the tooth fairy, would come and take your nose if you were bad— Mark "Minky" McManus
- When I was little, I thought the tooth fairy was a personal friend of my mom since she was a dentist.— Jess
- I used to believe that a topless bar was like a bar which has no roof on it.Anon