My Mum used to tell me that grownups could see through walls. She used to catch us picking our noses and so on when we didn't think we could be seen round corners or in reflections, but I completely believed that she could see through the walls.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I once believed that the walls and ceilings were completely jam packed with plumbing and wiring.— David
- I believed my dad when he said that he could see round corners. — Charisma
- I believed God lived in a specific crack in one of the walls of my church — Blake
- I sused to believe dinosaurs lived in my walls.— Joshua
- When I was little I thought that a "wallflower" was a kind of flower that grew on walls.— A. Nonny-Muss
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee