When I was about 5 or 6 I used to think that clown with spider legs will come from the bathroom and eat me. What caused that fear was that movie I watched (can't remember the name of the movie),which was so real,that even today I'm a little scared of clowns. They look kinda scary, don't they?
A childhood belief about clowns

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 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
- Thanks to the movie "Annie", I thought hot dogs were made from real dogs. — Katie
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben