I believed when I was a child that if a house was left alone for a long time, ghosts would start living in it and they would scare anyone who entered the house because of that and I never dared to enter an abandoned house.
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - The Whit house down the street was the real "White House". — SG
- I used to believe that if you opened up an umbrella inside your house that the whole house would fly awayAnon
- when i was younger i thought that when you moved house your house moved with you!!— chrissy
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa