My cousin who is two years older than me, told me that if you wrapped yourself up in curtains and made a "good" wish it would come true. But if you mad a "bad" wish, you would transported and locked into your attic and attacked by evil monsters. Yeah, she loved me.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to think that a family of evil bears lived in my grandparent's attic.— jasonchic
- My older brother once told me that Aussie shampoo was made from kangaroo pee. I avoided using it for years!— Annie
- Someone told me mascara was made from bat feces. To this day, I'm not sure if it's true.— Schmoopy
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- My Dad told me that the big bales of hay wrapped in plastic sitting in the fields on farms were cow eggs.Anon
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly