For quite a while during my youth, I believed that if I were to leave any of my toys outside, a vampire-like creature would emerge from them and try to eat me. The thought terrified me until I was around twelve.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- when i was little i thought that toys had parties wee little partys when you would leave home— Dominique Tello
- I believed that lightning bugs were faeries....
::sigh:: I miss those enchanted years of my youth.— Andrea Sorenson - I used to believe toys came alive at night.
Because I love toys, and I hoped be good friend with my toys.Anon - I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.Anon
- My mom thought "euthenasia" meant Asian kids.(youth in Asia)— Ibelievedher!
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey