When I was younger I would walk up stairs from a dark room waving my arms behind me because I thought it was protecting me from the monsters and ghosts that lived in the dark.
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- When i was a kid, i thought that the tv changed channels by dark magic.— Anna
- my best friend was so pale i thought she could glow in the dark— tattiebird
- Dark brown Smarties were poisonous.Anon
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I belived carrots made you see in the dark Anon