As a child I was convinced that there were red indians living under my bed. I really don't know where the idea came from - too many cowboy films perhaps! I could not stand near the bed in case they grabbed me so I had to take a running jump on to my bed and getting out of bed was almost impossible.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- I was convinced that Indians had dug the Grand Canyon.— Tom Sackett
- When I was a child I used to believe that stand up pianos actually told jokes as well as playing music.— L MAN
- I used to believed that smoking would make me a cowboy.— Alberto Batista
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were dinosaurs living in the mountains near where I live.— Teacher LM
- When i was little, (4 or so) i convinced myself that snails only ate apple peels.
I have no idea why.— Terracrafty - I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook