When I was little, my Mom, Dad and I would stay at my Grandparents house on Christmas Eve. They had a three story house, not including basement. Well, one year I slept on the third floor. After I heard everyone go to bed I heard a loud thump on the roof, then footsteps, and then I heard something slide down the chimney that ran from top to bottom in the center of the house. Followed by a large thud from the living room downstairs and ornaments hitting eachother.
My father is kind of a nut and would try to do something like that in his younger days. So maybe it was him. But I don't think I will ever know for sure, perhaps I will question him later.
Anyways, though I am 22 and no longer believe in Santa, this event still puzzles me and makes me wonder.
A childhood belief about father christmas
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that at Christmas if your house never had a chimney then santa came through your letter box— Rhys James
- We didn't have a chimney in our house. Father Christmas had to come in through the letter box.— Ginnean
- I used to believe that santa had a spare key to our house because we had no chimney.— Karl Andrade (Bombay, India)
- When i was younger i used to believe tha the cat gave Santa the keys to the house to get in !— Nikki Kellett
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon