I was about eight years old when the towers had been hit and the search was on for Osama Bin Laden. One night, as my parents and I sat down for the news, a man came on the air and said "we have looked everywhere for him." I was stunned. I knew they had missed a spot: under my bed. For months after that I was scared to death of going anywhere near my bed because i was convinced it was Osama Bin Laden's hiding spot.
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- One of my friends in elementary school thought that Osama bin Laden was "a son of Aladdin". Anon
- I used to believe that at dance clubs, the "smoke" that they'd spray was laden with drugs and I'd get high.— Lynn
- When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.— Mina Tova
- I used to believe my dad could honk the car horn by pushing on a mysterious spot on the roof of the car.— sarah b
- when there is a spot where the sun only shines between 2 clowds god was takeing dead people up to heaven.— manda
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman