When my sister was little i let her watch aliens and for weeks after she was frightened to go to the toilet alone incase a facehung would come out and get her.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to be convinced that there were bald-headed beige aliens outside my toilet window.— Phil
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- When I was a child I used to believe that doctors wore those face masks incase they threw up.— Nicole
- I used to be afraid of moving my wrists incase i snapped my veins and bled to death.— Tender veins
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa
- I don't know where I got this from but for a while I thought that aliens were really God. — Heazure