When i was really young, I fell in love with the Michael Jacksons "Thriller" video. The part where he is a zombie or whatever, he opens his eyes real wide, and there after I thought that if I opened my eyes real wide I too would turn into a zombie....
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- That there was a zombie living behind the bathtub in the upstairs bathroom.Anon
- I used to belive that zombie hands would burst trough the floor and grab my ankles.Anon
- I used to believe that if you stared into a cat's eyes, my eyes would turn that color too.— silvia
- when I was young I used to believe if I squinted my eyes and it was windy my eyes would stay like this forever— Jeanne
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie - I used to believe that the words to Michael Jacksons "Liberian Girl" were "librarian girl".— Paul