In the 1960's the greater Seattle-Tacoma, Washington state area had many farms. As a youngster I liked to look at the old styled buildings, silos, gardens, animals, etc. However, many of the barns (the gambrel roof styled kind) had their glass windows placed at an angle. Instead of square shaped windows, they looked like diamond shaped windows, (with a cross in the middle of the glass). To me this looked wrong and paranormal. I would have nightmares about being trapped in these barns with the diamond windows and they would collapse around me, or some such frightening scenario. Today when an occasional diamond windowed barn is spotted, (usually in disrepair) I actually get somewhat nervous and there is no way I would ever go inside of one!!
A childhood belief about excursions
others believed things like this
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- That when u opened all the windows on just one side of the car the wind would make it tip over.— Schmackalie
- I used to think that neil diamond was singing about the reverend blue jeansAnon
- I used to belive that Jack Frost was a real man! and that he came and painted frost on the windows at night.— Tom
- I knew that dairy farms have silos so I figured that they're where the milk is stored.
— marianne