In my parents house growing up there was a mouse hole in the wall beside the stairs. I always skipped the step that the hole was on because I thought that if I stepped on it a long, ugly white scabby hand would come out of the hole and grab my ankle.
I still always skip that step out of habit....
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....— Tina
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.— classroom 43
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.
Anon - I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe I could fly.
All I had todo was step of a flight of stairs and I'd be walking in the air...— Dolly - at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie