My grandparents lived on an old farmhouse with no indoor plumbing. That meant late-night trips to the outhouse. With flashlight in hand, my mom would lead the way, with 7 children following closely behind. While my younger sister and I were taking our turn, I saw a spider crawling right beside me and I totally freaked out. I thought surely there were millions of spiders down in the "hole" (to which I thought there was no bottom), just waiting to swarm all over my bum and bite me. From that day on, a trip to Grandma's meant constipation for me, because no way in HELL was I going to sit that long on that stupid hole!
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- When I was 8 I thought a spider lived in the toilet and would bite me if I sat on it.— Mike
- I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....— Tina
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie
- When I was liitle, I used to believe that if a spider would bite me than I would become Spider-Man!!!— IronManxD
- I thought if something was radioactive it meant if you turn on a radio near it it would blow up— Nate
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie