The basement was the scariest place in the house and whem my mother would ask me to get her something from the basement I would fetch what was asked for and run up the stairs as fast as I could knowing that a green, bumpy hand was very close and about to grab me as I burst through the upstairs door to safety. Hmmm, never knew what that hand was attached to.
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- I used to believe a spider monster was in my basement— Kelly bulanek
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- when i was little i used to believe that darth vador lived in my basement, and i was scared to go down there.— Jilli
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie