I snook out onto the staircase on Christmas eve once and there was someone in the dining room where we put our Christmas tree. All the lights were off so I couldn't see who it was but I just sat there for a bit and then when I thought they heard me I ran back to my room. Obviously it would have been one of my parents but I remember thinking I'd see Santa.
A childhood belief about father christmas

others believed things like this
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- when i was little i thought that jesus delivered presents on christmas not santa .— gaby
- I used to believe that at Christmas if your house never had a chimney then santa came through your letter box— Rhys James
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless