around the house

I thought that there were little people that lived behind the curtains on the windowsill when the curtains were closed. When I used to walk to bed across the landing Id say good night to them, and sometimes have a little chat.

Lou

I used to believe you could live down the back of the sofa...

Big Pete

when i was younger. i had this fear of dark rooms. i would always run through the room straight to the light switch. i would always think someone/thing was just behind me about to grab me so i would switch on the light and whip around. sometimes i find myself still doing it. lol.

tiff

When I was three or four years old, we lived in a fourth-floor walk-up flat that had steam heat. The radiator would go "hsssssssss-PFT!" every few seconds when the head was on. I would hear this sound in my dream, and I remember quite distinctly a nightmare I used to have where I would wake up and the radiator would be coming after me, going "hsssssss-PFT!" It would chase me into the living room and burn me on the knee. Then I'd wake up screaming, convinced that the radiator had chased me into the living room and burned me on the knee, and somehow I'd managed to crawl back to bed. I soon became terrified of the radiator in my room, certain that it was just waiting for its chance to get me.

Finally one day my mum came in and handed me a cap gun, one with the little rolls of paper with a bit of black powder that made a snap when the trigger was pulled. She told me that if, in the night, the radiator began to threaten me, I was to shoot it.

That night, instead of being woken up by screaming, my folks were woken up by loud SNAP!s of the cap pistol. There I was, sitting up in bed, shooting my radiator.

It went "hsssssss-PFT!" for many years to follow but I never had that nightmare again.

Dangerous Child

When I was about 4 years old, my mother told me somthing like "if your sunglasses gets broken, they can be fixed", meaning that if the glasses fell out of the frame it, one could just put them back again. I went out and started hitting my glasses with a rock... (My parents yelled at me just because i missunderstood.. BUHUU!)

Aikheel

I used to believe that the brackets that held up the mirror on the wall in my aunts bathroom were spiders. My cousin and I used to go in there to look at them and then run out screaming. We must have done this a thousand times.

Anon

I used believe that everyone who had a TV had their own TV shows on every day,when i heard someone say did you see the benny hill show the other night i thought "that was on my TV too"..but i was kid.

Steve

It took me many years to realise that the '3p sweet' that my parents kept going on about was actually furniture '3-piece suite' and not my next treat....

Athena

In the house we lived in the was a gap between the airing cupboard and my bedroom. I used to believe that my dead grandmother lived in there.

Anon

Triffids lived under the back verandah ... i was 10 when i saw the movie about those terrible plant alien things invaded ... we had plants called elephants ears (obvious reason)... we lived on a hill .. the breeze would rustle the leaves and make exactly the same noise as triffids ... usually around the time i was downstairs feeding the dog ... i was terrified ... still will not have them near my house as an adult ... you just never know do you ??

headless chicken 2k

We had this couch in our basement that had a picture of a dog carrying a duck in his mouth, stnading next to a pond. When I was little I asked what the doggy was doing with the duck. My mom told me that it was saving the duck because it was drowing. It wasn't until I resently looked at it that I realized the dog was a hunting dog and the duck was...

Mars

Thought about this when I saw the thing about shag carpet on the ceiling. My mother always vacuumed the ceiling when she did the floor. I was in the 30's before I discovered most of the world didn't do this!

Anita T

My sister told me when I was about four, that IF I ran over the vacuum cord while vacuuming I would be instantly electrocuted. I was PETRIFIED of the vacuum. The really sad part was that I didn't figure out the real truth until I was about 20!

sheila

I used to believe that the washing powder than my mum bought Persil or similar..... was just used by her and when I found out it wasnt i was most upset and didnt want my clothes washed again.... I smelled very bad at aged 7

Anon