When i was really little, about 3 years old or so, we lived across the street from a cemetery. There were these little mausoleums with stained glass windows, one of which was right across from our front door. One evening i was looking out the front window watching for my grandparents' car, when i saw a light come on inside the mausoleum. I completely flipped out. I was positive that corpses has risen from the dead and turned on the light in their little house. Turns out it was just our porch light, which my dad had switched on when he saw me staring out into the darkness, reflecting off the stained glass.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- I used to believe there was a newsreader inside the radio where the light was!!— Christine