I believed that if you made shadow puppets, the animals would come alive and be live shadows. That's why some shadows move and scare you, and where shadows where you don't know what they are come from.
I grew out of this fairly quickly.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to believe the shadows on the moon were actually spacemen casting shadows on the ground.— Perry
- I used to believe that realistic looking toys could actually see. But only the shadows of things.— Micah Dunlap
- Until I was about 12 years old I believed that homeless people were made up by my parents to scare me.— Angela B.
- I used to believe that my stuffed animals would come alive at night to protect me.— Julie
- when i was 2 or 3 believed that i had lots of animals in my tummy it made sense my mum had baby in hers.— kjc
- i belive every toy and stuffed animals is alive and moving and they just dont want to admitt it.— hannah