when i was little i was convinced that i was always being stalked by ghosts, and because of this, for some reason i would never turn of the light in a room withought being completely out of it first!
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I was completely convinced that Sade's "Smooth operator" was "Ooh of the red eye".— Brookstar78
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I used to turn the TV off when I left the room so I didn't miss anything.— S.Lee
- I used to think that there were ghosts in the loft and that's why I was not allowed to go up there.Anon
- When I was child I used to believe that people who die become ghosts and could see youAnon
- I used to think that ghosts rode on vaccum cleanersAnon