I remember myself being around 5 years old when this happened. Sometimes at night, while sleeping in my little crib, I would hear a chain dragged on the hallway outside my room, in the middle of the night. You can imagine the sound, a metalic sound. This kept happening until I was 8 or 9 years old, and I was always horrified by it so I never told anybody about it. I always thought there was an evil ghost there and if i get out of my room it would take me with it. sometimes i would even cry. It all stopped when I became old enough to face it, just to discover it was actually the refrigerator warming up or cooling down, and the sound was made by it's pump.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was the noise the stars made when they sparkled. — Jane
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was actually coming from the twinkle of the stars.— Lily Fagioli
- I had tinnitus as a child and used to believe that it was the sound that the devil made when he was closeby— Helen
- I used to think that the sound made from airplanes flying over me was the antenna scrapping across the sky.— Richard J Brown
- I use to believe the sound that a car made when it was running low on gas was what they called horse power...— Bianca
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY