When I was very young, a sinus problem made it so I often heard my heartbeat in my ears. I always feared that what I was hearing was the footsteps of Big Foot coming to get me. I'd lie under my covers scared to death every night.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if i took the covers off at night i would freeze to death.— RockerGirl
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon
- At nights, when I have trouble sleeping, I used to hear large footsteps - something like the Godzilla.— John
- I used to believe that when you where stoned to death you would be made to smoke heaps of cones and die.— leslie henshaw