When I was little, whenever we drove past the airport at night, my mom would tell me that all of the different colored lights on the ground were porchlights for the gnomes that lived there. I believed it for many years...
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- when i was about 5-8 i used to believe that oompa loompas lived in traffic lights and controlled the lights!!— ~wierd ~
- My parents said that gnomes tied knots in my hair while I was sleeping. I had insomnia for years.— Daria
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart
- when i was about 3 or4 i use to beleive that whenever we drove at night the moon use to follow us— moonstalker
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- I used to believe that the cows owned by my grandfather slept lying on the ground like a human at night.— Eric