When I was six or seven, I heard a radio commercial about drug addicts. I thought the commercial meant that these were people that lived in "attics." I became convinced that people we didn't know were secretly living in our attic. For several years I wouldn't dare go in our attic by myself.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- Once I thought these two teenagers who used to wash my mums car lived in our attic. Hahaha!— Roxanne
- I used to think that a family of evil bears lived in my grandparent's attic.— jasonchic
- i used to believe that edward scissorhands lived in our family friend's attic.Anon
- i used to believe that a mortgage was a big pirates chest that my mom and dad used to keep in the attic. — lou
- When I was a child, I used to believe that the school attic was full of ghosts and elfs.— Lia
- I used to believe that little people lived in the radio.— Brittany