my dad told me and my brother there was a family of hobos in the basement i believed him . one time my mom told me to go get some milk from down there never had i been so scared in my life .
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- when i was little i used to believe that darth vador lived in my basement, and i was scared to go down there.— Jilli
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- I believed for a long time that brown cows gave chocolate milk!— Evil Mom
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully
- My brother once told me that if you burp and fart at the same time, you'd explode— Aubrey