I used to believe that monsters lived in the closet and that arms of some sort would grab me from under the bed if I got up without looking. I eventually convinced my parents to buy me a bed with a pedestal so that there was NO underneath for the arms to hide!
A childhood belief about in my closet

others believed things like this
- We used to think that if you ran swinging your arms around, you would run faster. — Christine
- that if I flapped my arms hard enough, I could get airborne.— DeQuendre
- When my grandma was little, her dad would tell her that the freckles on her face and arms were fly crap.Anon
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily
- I used to think that you would get arrested if you didn't swing your arms when you walked in publicAnon
- I used to think Jaywalkers were people who walked briskly whilst swinging their arms.. whoops!— Lisa