My grandpa used to tell me that there was a bobcat in their cellar. I don’t know why he said this, but I believed him and I was always scared to go down there. It wasn't until years later that I realized he was just teasing me....I think.
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- I used to believe in ghosts because I always heard noises comming from the cellar.— Sabrina
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - When I was 4 i always believed that the brocolli would jumpoff the plate and eat me and today im still scared— Katrina S.
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon