When I was young I believed there was a monster that lived under my bed and in order to keep him from coming out and eating me, I had to feed him lint balls that I pulled off of my blanket. Every morning I would wake up and step on a pile of lint.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- I used to think your belly button was there to collect the lint of your shirt!Anon
- I used to believe that belly button lint came from the *inside*. Why else would it always be the same color?Anon
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I used to believe that 3 witches lived in my stomache and I ate to feed them.— Meara
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney