When I was little I saw the episode of The X Files where this weird man like creature lived in the sewers living off of people's feces so I was afraid to go to the bathroom until my mom told me it wasn't real.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.Anon
- Someone told me mascara was made from bat feces. To this day, I'm not sure if it's true.— Schmoopy
- That there was a zombie living behind the bathtub in the upstairs bathroom.Anon
- when i was 4 my mom told me we lived in Indiana and i would tell people we lived in DianaAnon
- I didn't know whether nail files were supposed to make your nails sharper or duller.Anon
- I used to believe that teachers lived in ufos at night and tha's why they dressed so weird.— llama queen