I was about 5 or 6 at the time. We used to have a gabage can JUST like the one Oscar the Grouch has in our basement. I used to tell my little friends that came over not be too loud or Oscar would come out and yell at us! They would always believe me!
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- i used to yell at the moon and sun for following me— rachel
- 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
- 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
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette