When I was young my father told me that giants live in fir trees. It scared the living daylights out of me and I would drag my mum back and forth across roads to avoid them. To this day I still look at them sideways.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- My mom used to believe that the San Francisco Giants baseball team were actual giants.Anon
- When I first seen that boy band Hanson I thought they were all drag queen that were in bad drag. — TUTTLE
- I used to believe that drag racing was when guys dressed in drag raced each other. LOL— Emmy
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- I used to believe that drag racing actually involved men in drag.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were dinosaurs living in the mountains near where I live.— Teacher LM