When I was 8 I was terrified of huntsman spiders. One day my cousin told me that they could slide right under my bedroom door. I think I blocked under there with clothes to get rid of the space.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I know this isnt a huge funny belief, but I used to think that all spiders were poisonous. I love spiders now!— Sammy
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon