I convinced my 4 year old cousin of an exsistece of something called a walking around troll. I said if you stay in a room in the dark when your not sleeping it will eat you. It got very creepy when the power in my room only went off. Thats when I told him I made it up.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I use to believe the sound that a car made when it was running low on gas was what they called horse power...— Bianca
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- that Newport power station was where clouds were made. My dad is a known liar.— Lydia
- i used to believe that clouds were made from the thick smoke that came out of power plant towers.— Rick Shaw
- I used to believe that my grandpa had a special power that made him fart each time I pulled his finger. — confused