around the house

I used to have a big bookcase in my room, and whenever I heard a noise that I couldn't explain (air conditioning kicking in, etc.) , I thought that it came from behind that bookcase. Eventually I realized that there was a man behind my bookcase who was as flat as a pancake that tried to lure me out with his weird noises. Even when we moved, I imagined that a mover guy was trapped behind the bookcase and became the new Pancake Man. I was terrified of the Pancake Man until my mom decided to paint my room and moved the bookcase away from the wall. When I asked her where the Pancake Man was she gave me weirdest look and asked me what I meant. I'm still afraid to look behind bookcases...

cucumber

When i was younger, I thought that those buttons on the outlets would destroy our house. If I pressed the yellow one, our house would collapse, and the red one would make it blow up.

Jules

When I was about 3 to 5 my dad told me that there were people in our dining room table and so I believed him and named them and I made up and town and what I thought there lives were like.

Alison Uyeda

I used to believe there was a little man that lived in the mailbox. He would catch the mail and make sure it went to the right place.

Anon

when i was around ten my family and i would visit our aunt's house a lot. she had a fireplace and we didn't so i wasn't used to them. in the winter her fireplace was always lit. it petrified me. i was convinced that at any moment the entire house would be a blaze. so i would tell my mother that i wanted to go outside and play even though there was nothing but a driveway and some trees. so i would stand in the driveway in the freezing cold for hours waiting for my family to burn up.

valerie

I used to believe that through the top shelf of the walk-in closet in my parents bedroom, there was a secret door that lead to a movie theatre. And it was called "Super Cinema". Don't remember many other details. I think the idea came first from a dream.

Scandia

When I was 4 I thought that my pillows would come alive and have a tea party with MY tea set!! Why couldn't they bye their own!!?!?!??!!

Elizabeth

i used to believe the sound from a piano came from the keys hitting a stuff called "sploosh"{wierd, huh?}.

exploding buttox

Until I was probably in 3rd grade, I planned on having a force-field a la Star Wars around my home when I grew up :-)

Temptress

I used to believe that laundry baskets were little race cars and I would sit in them and make the noises and pretend to steer the wheel.

Bridgette

When I was about 8 years old I would help my mom would put my dirty clothes in the washing machine. But when I throw my clothes in the washing machine I would see my clothes swirl round and round. I would think that my clothes would go throw pipes and accidentally go in my neghbors washing machine. But now I'm 16 and now better.

Julia

When I was 3 my parents were selling our house and we had a guy come to look at it and shortly thereafter we moved and i thought that he had stolen our house. So we saw him at a store once and i asked why he had stolen our house.

Isobel

I used to believe that when my parents said about a 'walk-in wardrobe' they were saying a 'walking' wardrobe! I was bloody terrified!

Unusual being

When I was younger my grandma once told me that my grandfather (who had died years before) turned the lights on for us at her house. When I got a little older I realized that her lights were on a timer.

Allison from Lisle

I used to like lying in front of our fake fire to keep myself warm (not a fan of cold weather), and i used to lie really close. My brother told me that my spine would melt if i kept doing this. And again i still feel uncomfortable doing this :P

Ashley

When I was a child, I used to think that water than came out of the bathroom sink was very bad and undrinkable, because the same plumbing came to the toilet. And maybe it was like drinking out of the toilet. Only drinkable water came out of the kitchen sink.

Linda, Los Angeles

I'm Native Canadian, and my tribe is called Haida. For years I thought that lots of people used sofas named after my tribe. It wasn't until later that I realized it was actually Hide-a-Bed.

Haida girl