My mom would often use the expression, "skeleton in the closet" when someone in our neighborhood had a secret. I took this a bit literaly and thought there actually was a skeleton in the closet and that was what they did to kids who were being bad.
A childhood belief about in my closet
others believed things like this
- That a satchel was a skeleton, and I would have to wear a skeleton on my back for school!Anon
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to believe that if I went down the stairs slowly a red eyed skeleton would come and run after me.— Melly2bee
- i used to think that coloured people had the same colour skeletonAnon
- I used to believe that when people died, their bodies would immediately turn in to a skeleton— fv
- i used to believe that there was a pirate n my closet .— Natyyyy