You know those old maps with the pictures of sea serpents and the like on them? Well when I was a kid I thought there really were HUGE sea monsters (as big as islands or continents like the pictures showed) in those places
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I thought that islands and continents were floating rocks so you could swim underneath them.— Kat
- i used to think that the world used to be black and white, cos that's what grandma's pictures showed me...— bgumm
- I used to believe that everyone in pictures could see me so i turned all of the pictures in my house backwardsAnon
- back in the days i thought the world was black and white like in the pictures— compaq
- when i was little, i thought that a con artist was a person that painted pictures of people commiting crimes— kimkim
- I used to believe photosynthesis had something to do with pictures. Heh.— Sessee