When I was a kid I believed that dark places were pieces of the night that didn't go away when the sun came up, because they were caught behind doors and in closets, etc. I thought that the darkness grew up out of the world when the sun started going down. I was very scared of it.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- The line 'The dark sacred night' in What A Wonderful World is actually 'The dogs say goodnight'...— rebecca
- I used to believe that teachers lived inside the closets of their classrooms.Anon
- When I was little, I believed that banks were places where anyone could go in and take some money for free. Anon
- I believed that fairies lived in lamp posts - their front doors were the little holes where the key fits.— Janice
- I used to believe that when you grew up, nothing scared you anymore. Anon
- i used to be scared of under my bed and thought that my cat became a monster only at night.— sumayah