When I was little I used to believe that when you would turn off the lights in a room, these big hairy monsters would come so I would step out of my room, with my hand in the room on the light switch, turn it off and dart down the hallway!
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to turn the TV off when I left the room so I didn't miss anything.— S.Lee
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I used to believe that God controlled the traffic lights. He would decide when it was everybody's turn to go.— Amanda
- I would turn the lights off and then leg it up the stairs thinking a monster would be chasing me.Anon
- i used to believe if i eat fish it would turn my stomach into a fishtank and make me turn into glass.Anon
- When I was young, I thought that when you turn the blinkers on in the car, it made the car turn.— Cassidy