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I use to believe that if you went through a door you had to go back thru it backwards or else you would get traped in another dimetion.

Xambonie

when I was younger about 6 after seeing a movie about a man who lived in this families attic (I think it was A Man In The Attic or something like that)he was sort of evil he killed thier dog after the dog sniffed him out... I thought there was a man in our attic and late at night I would talk to him. I would let him know that I knew he was there and he could live there we didn't care...I would tell him this so he would not kill my family. as it turns out this belief was ill founded as we lived in an apartment in wisconsin and had no attic...I didn't really realize what an attic was I thought everyone had one. But I beleived for many years he was up there and would talk to him and let him know we were friendly and would never kick him out he could live there as long as he wanted and if we found him he was safe living in our attic.

kitty

I used to believe that there was a tiny person who lived in my refrigerator who turned the light on when i opened the door, and shut it off when i closed it. I believed this for years until eventually the fridge got old and one day the light didnt turn on and in panic I asked my older sister if the little man in the fridge had died or have moved away and she showed me that the light bulb had blew.

dollface

My mom (in what I guess was an attempt to keep me from draining hot water) told me that sinks we not equipped enough to handle boiling hot water and that if i poured boiling hot water down the drain it would explode. TO THIS DAY i cannot pour hot water down the drain without first diluting it with cold water!

MGM

This is something my husband shared with me...when he was rather young - 9 or 10, as he was leaving a friend's house, he saw a little "fire" in a tin box he didn't think should be there so he blew it out...needless to say, the next day his friend told him how unbelievably cold it was in the house that night - they even had frost on the windows! (it was winter time) my husband thought he was doing them a favor when he blew out the pilot light on the furnace!!!

Anon

i grew up in a very country area & my mom has a little bit of an accent. it wasn't until probably jr high or high school that i realized that what i had been hearing as "chester drawers" was actually "chest of drawers". i thought that maybe the piece of furniture was invented by some guy named chester. it certainly makes more sense now. move over jessica simpson!

mariegael

I was helping my grandmother clean her house, and she commented on how shiny all her boy and girl figures were. ( I found out later they were Hummels) I told her it was because I used the porcelin jelly on them. She asked me to show her this 'magic substance' and was horrified to find out it was petrolem jelly (Vaseline). Some of her figures were to 'clean' to be saved.

Anacita

I believed that my pillow had feelings. Before putting my head onto it I apologized to it for having to hurt it and then I lay my head down very gently.

Roslyn

I used to believe that the head of my bed could not be against the same wall that the front door of the house was on or something terrible would happen.

Kerri

When I was a kid around 8 years old, if I got in trouble...it was called "GO TO YOUR ROOM, YOU ARE IN TROUBLE" My mom, dad and I moved to California. I met friend down the street who was part Chumash Indian. I called one day to see if she could come over to play and her mom said she was "grounded." I was horrifed because I had never heard that term before. All I could imagine was Kathy buried up to her neck in their backyard with birds pecking her eyes out.

LMH

When i was younger i also thought that if you painted your walls yellow that when the lights were off that the room would stay light

Pogo

At my house, whenever the furnace kicked on, it would make a really loud noise. When I was little I used to believe that if i was in the hall right next to it when it went on, ghosts or demons would come out. I remeber once screaming in terror because it came on when i was in the hall. I always made sure it sounded before i went to the bathroom or anything.

DontJello

we have a laundary shoot. i was sooo fascinated by it when i was younger. i thought it was a mail box to a different dimension ... so one day, i took a note that said "to my message friend" on it and it said "wanna be friends?" and had a poem on it ... every day i would throw something down there. it wasnt in use,but after awhile it was clogged up with notes and gifts, so it never came out where it was supposed to. well, a few weeks ago, i remebered that i used to do that, and i wondered where all that stuff went? so i got a broom and loosened everything up and out fell: 7 funny notes and stupid poems, a beanie baby, some junk mail, a few computer game CDs, and and some reading glasses ...

whew

i used to belive that when i waw little, my sisters and me would do very bad things, so we always used to stand in the corners. i always though when i was bad, the walls would suck me in because i was bad.

gurly

My mother told me that there were monsters living in electrical sockets so if I stuck my hand in the wholes the monsters would bite my hand off...... I never did it, but everytime I would pass an electrical socket I would try and see the monsters.

Shelly

My grandma had a ceramic duck in her basement, and I believed that whenever I rubbed it, a genie would come out and grant me a wish. Whenever I visited Grandma, I taunted the genie by rubbing the duck and running upstairs, only coming downstairs when I was certain he was gone. Then I realized that I was pissing him off, and then he'd try to kill me. That made it even more fun-- I'd rub the duck and sprint upstairs and try not to give myself away.

athena

i used to believe that there was a monster walkin in my house

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