my mother told us that there was a mr. wall and if we touched the walls with our dirty hands he would take her away. we did and she hid in the closet acting like he took her. we had to promise mr. wall never to get the walls dirty again.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- a friend thought that the song "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" was saying "dirty deeds dunderchief"— dubs
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- I sused to believe dinosaurs lived in my walls.— Joshua
- I used to believe that toilets would open and swallow you up because they got dirty!!— swallowing toilet
- When I was little I thought that a "wallflower" was a kind of flower that grew on walls.— A. Nonny-Muss