My granny had a garage made out of compressed wood chips and one looked like a really angry owl monster and I use to think if I stared at it too long it would come off the wall and peck my back.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- i used to think if you stared long enough at the sun (until it looked blue) you could kill it— sean
- i, too, thought my grandma made up the bushel and a peck song. :)— nessa
- I used to think that if you had a garage sale that meant you were selling the garage!— ~Curtis~
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J
- I used to believe that pretzals were made of wood.Anon
- I used to believe that pretzels were made from wood....Anon