when i was about 4 or 5, my family told me that opening the door to the coal cellar it would cause an explosion... i believed it and stayed away, although i'd have LOVED to go in. Later on I realised they only said that to keep me from playing in there and making a huge black mess.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- I used to believe in ghosts because I always heard noises comming from the cellar.— Sabrina
- When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie
- When I was a kid I was convinced that the world would end by a nucleur explosion. — Marshall M
- i used to believe that coal from stockings was santa's poop because i was bad— dylan mcdonald
- My dad told me that playing basketball makes you taller. Basketball players are tall, so I believed him.Anon