As a child growing up my dad would take my brothers and I to monster movies. I would believe they were real life monsters but the thing I couldn't understand why weren't they in the news at 5:30 PM, which my dad would always watch.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that movies and series were real.Anon
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero
- I used to believe people really died in movies. I didnt understand they were just acting.— Justin
- I thought that psychological torture involved forcing people to watch really sad movies!— Elviessa
- I use to believe thar the movies were real— Dennis G
- I used to believe Dragons were real like Dinosaurs. I found out the other day they weren't.. Haha. Anon