When I was 3, my grandma let me watch ET (the movie) in her basement. It scared me to death and from 3 to 10 I believed ET lived behind the pipes in the back of my grandma's basement. I never went to the back of the basement by myself and had to turn on all the lights to even go to the basement.
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- when i was little i used to believe that darth vador lived in my basement, and i was scared to go down there.— Jilli
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- I used to believe a spider monster was in my basement— Kelly bulanek
- I couldn't wait to turn 20 so I could go through the Roaring 20's and be a flapper like my Grandma.— Susan Bonnell