When I was young I didn’t use to look out the window of my room because I thought there was an animal outside. I thought this because it was something that had occurred to my father so that I would not open the window.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought a widow was someone who stares at you through a windowAnon
- I thought the white circles you see when looking at a bright window were what atoms of air look like.— H.
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane
- My mom used to tell us kids that if you put your arm out of the car window,that it would fall off.— Kathy G.
- I used to believe that the moon lived on top of our house because I could always see it from the window.— Classic NYer
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn