When I was nine I watched part of a movie on TV where some poltergeist reached up through a puddle of oil on a garage floor and pulled the little girl of the movie through to him. After that, I was convinced that he was real and could do the same thing in the bathtub, because our drain was slow and there was always a small pool of water at the bottom. I got so scared that I eventually started standing on washclothes in the shower, believing they would act as a barrier and protect me from the poltergeist.
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I used to think that trolls lived in my shower drain and showered with my dirty water— Troll bather
- I used to think that when a movie was 'based on a true story' it was happening for real then and there— Tom
- I use to beliee that if someone got shot or lost a limb in a movie they actually did in real life. Anon
- I used to think that a movie is made in realtime. I tought that a 2 hour movie is made in 2 hours.— Alexander
- in this TV show i saw a snake coming up from the drain so everytime i take a shower i go really fast!— scared person