I convinced my mom to let me see "The Silence of the Lambs" when I was 12 and I wouldn't go into the basement for three months afterward.
My brother still swears it's "The Silence of the Yams" because yams are silent and lambs aren't.
A childhood belief about basements
others believed things like this
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon
- To this day my friend (he's 17) swears that chipmunks are baby squirrels.— Liz
- My sister used to think that because I was 15 months older than her, I would die 15 months before her!— Nicola Braden
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- I never did understand why it was "Our Father, who aren't in heaven".— Edith