To keep us out of the unfinished basement my grandfather told us kids that there were crocodiles living down there.
At my grandma’s basement there was a hold in the middle of the floor to sweep dirt and water into after a storm. It was shallow and covered with a piece of wood. For years I thought it was a portal to Hell or a grave.
A childhood belief about basements
others believed things like this
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- 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
- when i was little i used to believe that darth vador lived in my basement, and i was scared to go down there.— Jilli
- I used to believe that mountains were dinosaurs that had died and been covered with dirt.— Marina