I was afraid to look at my bedroom window when it was dark out. I believed that vampires hung around outstide dark windows and if you looked at the window you would see them and then be hypnotized. Thus in that state you would let them in and they would make me a vampire.
A childhood belief about vampires
others believed things like this
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - i used to think that eating carrots would make your eyes glow in the dark— nik
- Dark brown Smarties were poisonous.Anon
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I belived carrots made you see in the dark Anon
- if you read the bible in the dark your eyes would pop out— chriistabelle