When I was very young I learnt about pirhanas at the same time a washing detergent company had a TV ad featuring cartoon enzymes that munched the dirt off clothes in the washing machine. Somehow the two got linked in my mind, and thought that when the lights were off that the floor was covered in 'enzymes' that could eat my bones clean in 30 seconds. I had to jump from the hallway onto my bed without touching my carpet or they'd get me.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - I used to believe that if I put my arm in the washing machine while it was going that it would rip off.— Hannah
- To clean the goldfish you put washing up liquid into its bowl.— Sev
- I believe that it would rain when God would be having a shower or washing his clothes.— Karina
- I used to believe the fishs are washing clothes under the ship when it moves because of the bubbles— jeff jefferson
- When I was young I used to believe that when it is raining God is crying or washing dishes.Anon