When I was a kid, (that was loooong ago), I thought that a burglar was an insect, that looked similar to a spider. I was terrified of spiders, because I thought they would grow to enormous proportions, and steal all of our stuff.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God looked like an enormous version of "Woody" from the Toy Story series.— Ryan
- At the age of about 5, I thought that any man carrying a bag/sack over his shoulder was a burglar.— Police officer, Ola.
- i used to think that little tiny spiders would grow big while my mom wasn'r looking and eat me.— rodog
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben
- I know this isnt a huge funny belief, but I used to think that all spiders were poisonous. I love spiders now!— Sammy
- When I was liitle, I used to believe that if a spider would bite me than I would become Spider-Man!!!— IronManxD