There was a part of the furnace you could look into and see bluish flames. I think it might have been gas flames. Anyway, I thought that was hell.
A childhood belief about basements
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the heat from the furnace came from hell, and that it was a straight drop there.Anon
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- I thought that if you wore the colour red, you would go yo hell. — Tone
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- When I first went to School, I thought it was like hell. It's not as a bad as I thought, heheAnon