There was some sort of chicken-monster on that Ghostbusters cartoon, and I thought it lived behind my garage and would eat me if I went out back in the dark.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you had a garage sale that meant you were selling the garage!— ~Curtis~
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- i used to believe that a monster lived in the garbage disposal. i would never go near the sink— Whitney
- I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)— Girlfloyd