My brother told me that a woman and her husband had drowned in our bathtub and lived beneath the bath waiting to come out and get me.
Needless to say, after that episode I was a fairly unhygienic child.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if passed beneath a rainbow I would turn into a woman.— Felipe
- I used to think that when I was in the bath I shark lived under the bath and that ig might come up and bite me— ------------
- When I was a child, I used to believe my parents were superheroes, like the fairly oddparents!Anon
- I always thought that a little person lived inside each mailbox waiting to take my letter to its destination.— Anne
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- When I was little I though "A Cross" was a mud/tar pit and that Jesus drowned.— Usagi Ohkami