When I was growing up, my parents had a crawlspace in their basement. My cousins used to tell me that a little skinny blue boy named Andrew lived in there and wanted to eat me. I avoided the basement.
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- when i was little i used to believe that darth vador lived in my basement, and i was scared to go down there.— Jilli
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- I used to believe a spider monster was in my basement— Kelly bulanek
- when i was growing up i had two imaginary friends. One was named Jennifer, the other was named Onion.— Tessica