I used to think that the monsters under the stairs made a mass migration every night, and that their migration path led them right over my bed. If I lay very very still and held my breath, they wouldn't notice that there was someone under the blanket they were walking on and they wouldn't attack me. If I closed my eyes, I could see them all stumbling over me in a long long line...
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I stood at the top of the stairs, closed my eyes and yawned, I flew down them— Sam
- I used to believe that if you had to fart and held it in too long that it would cause you to blow upAnon
- I used to believe that if you held a fart in long enough it would come out as a burp.— Chris
- There ARE monsters under the bed but they won't eat you so long as you don"t get out of bed before 7am.— Sarah
- I used to believe that monsters couldnt find me or hurt me if my whole body where under my blanket— Scared shitless
- I used to think that if you held a turd in for more than an hour it would give you bad breath— phil