When I was around 4 years old, my father took me to the show to see "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and for years after that I thought there was an octopus living under my bed so I would have to take a flying leap to get in and out of my bed so the octopus wouldn't grab my ankle and pull me in!
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- that pickles were octopus legsAnon
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily
- My uncle convinced me that if you ate octopus, the suckers on the tentacles would suck your tongue out— Minnie
- From the Carpenters hit I always sang "calling octopus of interplanetary craft" instead of "occupants".— Paul
- I used to believe that people born on leap year would only age once every 4 yearsAnon
- When I was a child I used to belive that my father had forever been a 40 years old man.— Nicola