When I was in 1st grade, our teacher read a book about an alligator in a toilet. From that day on I feared that I'd be eaten by an alligator if I didn't go pee fast enough!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe Gatorade was made from alligator pee.Anon
- I used to believe that Steak was actually alligator meat. Anon
- I used to think gladiators were meant to be some sort of alligator.Anon
- I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.— Ginger
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy