I used to have a fear of nocturnal visits to the toilet after seeing a program about rats coming out of toilets at night. I will go now, but only with the light on and I sing loud to scare any rats away!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think thats rats put those eye crusties there while I were asleep— Maria
- I used to believe that tangled hair really had rats in it.— Kristy
- I used to believe that spiders were mutated rats that were shrunk!— Quako
- I used to believe that meatballs were made from dead rats.— Dogface
- when i was small i thought rats mutated into batsAnon
- I used to believe that the dancing rats from the nutcracker lived under my dresser.— Molly