My best friend would sleep with her legs crossed because she believed aliens could rape her while she was sleeping. She did this until we were close to High School age.
A childhood belief about aliens

others believed things like this
- We used to turn our walkie talkies on high at night and believed were communicating with aliens!— Dreamy
- I thought that "statutory rape" were meant to rape a statue.Anon
- When I was young, I honestly believed that I would die before I reached high school. Anon
- when I was about 7 I thought that aliens hid under my bed. I wouldn'd sleep in my bed for a whole year!— *Rachel*
- I was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since— scotty la
- I used to believe that you got married right after you finished high school or college. Anon