when I was young my mother told me that when I heard noises from my bed that it was just the "squeaks" in my bed(she meant to say my bed was squeaking) so until I was about 7 I would have night terrors about these starfish like creatures that squeaked
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- I used to believe in ghosts because I always heard noises comming from the cellar.— Sabrina
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- When I was young my mother told me that if I swallowed bubble gum, it would stick to my liver.— Barbie
- My sister told me that if I picked my nose there were snail creatures inside of it that would bite my fingers.Anon