From age 3 to about 6, when people said, "shut the door, you'll let a draft in," I thought drafts were huge, stealthy, pale-grey bats that must be kept outside at all costs.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- when i was small i thought rats mutated into batsAnon
- my best friend was so pale i thought she could glow in the dark— tattiebird
- i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE - I used to believe that moths were a species of bats that only ate the tag on the inside of your shirt— Bob the Baby
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- I used to believe that in old times the world was grey (black and white, i got the idea from old movies) — Bryce