About 40 years ago, an adult cousin told me that ghosts lived in your closets. To this day I cannot sleep with a closet door open!
A childhood belief about in my closet

others believed things like this
- i used 2 believe when i left my closet door open at
night a skelleton would pop out and wave at me— bex - I used to believe that teachers lived inside the closets of their classrooms.Anon
- That captain hook lived in my closet on the very top shelf.Anon
- I seriously used to believe that Bert from Sesame Street lived in my closet and that he was going to kill me.— Liz
- I thought if I left the door open too long, a dog would come from the cupboard in the washroom and eat me
Anon - I used to think that 'Child Locking' only worked on children and that older people could still open the door.— Anonymous Whistleblower