My older sister told me an earthquake was an animal that hid under your bed and shook because it was scared. She even helped me put food out so it could be my pet.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- I used to believe that cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.— ella
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- I used to believe that when there was an earthquake, rocks would fall from the sky.— Nai