When me and my siblings were younger our parents always used to tell us that we would turn into gremlins if we went to bed after midnight. We later found out it was only to get us to bed early. We still joke about it.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- My siblings told me that if I ate too much cheese, I'd turn into a cow. I believed them.— Sophie
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that Gremlins was the sequel to E.T.— Vivian
- when I was little I used to believe that gremlins were real and seeked distroying the world.— Dalton
- When I was younger I used to believe that if I ate too much of something I would turn into that food.— Genny R
- When I was younger I thought that if I ate Gusher's, my head would turn into fruit, like in the commercialsAnon
- my parents used to tell me and my sisters that if we ate our vegtables our eyes would turn green..— alex t