When I was little, I was really afraid to walk in the hallway at night by myself unless I turned the lights on. I thought there was a walking skeleton that was hiding in the dark and I was too afraid to talk about the skeleton, fearing that it could hear me
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- That a satchel was a skeleton, and I would have to wear a skeleton on my back for school!Anon
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to believe that if I went down the stairs slowly a red eyed skeleton would come and run after me.— Melly2bee
- i used to think that coloured people had the same colour skeletonAnon
- I used to believe that when people died, their bodies would immediately turn in to a skeleton— fv
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon