I used to think that if you dumped green Kool-Aid on the lawn at night, zombies would come out of the ground and "get" me. I was terrified for years and years until I did it and nothing happened. I had lived in fear for 4 years. How 'bout that?
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- My Mum told me if I ate too much toast I would get cancer! I couldn't eat it for years and years...— Pauliboy
- I used to thing that vikings lived 50 years ago.— Sigrid
- My brother that is 6 years younger than me used to believe that in seven years he would be older than me.Anon
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman