When I was a kid, there was a smoke detector in my room, and most of the time the light was green but sometimes it would flash red for a second.
I believed that if I saw it flash red three times in the same night I would die. No idea why I thought that.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie
- that the green traffic light turned blue when it was off— Kriket Evens
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- I believed that the pictures on my nighties came alive at night and played in my room while i was asleep!!Anon