My mum and dad used to ensure me and my brother were well behave by telling us that the 'Daleks' would come and take use away, every now and then our aurn and uncle cma round with their estate care with said daleks in it. It was around 5 years later we discovered that the daleks were just upturned metal dustbins.
A childhood belief about aliens

others believed things like this
- When I was 8, I was convinced the Daleks were going to come out from under my bed and get me!— Whaddupwho
- I thought exterminators were Daleks.Anon
- that Worzel Gummidge was the scariest thing on television... and the daleks of course. — tracy g
- Up until I was nine my uncle told me that the round bales of hay were cow eggs.— Fred
- Thunder was my dead uncle in heaven playing a round of bowling with God.— Mike
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra