around the house

My mom used to tell me that there was an invisible powder that people used to sprinkle on their carpets and floors that could tell where you had walked through their house. I was always scared to death to walk around someone's house. Especially to the bathroom. Sometimes when I go to someone's house that I don't know very well I still think about that powder. It still gives me the creeps.

star gazer

When I was a lot younger,a particular picture of my Great Grandma sat on my Mothers dresser.When I would walk in the room it would scare me so bad as I thought she was watching me from the picture,she had passed away many years before I was born.You couldn't convince me in any way that she wasn't going to come and walk towards me out of the picture.So in my young mind I thought if I laid the picture down on its glass that Grandma Stevens was trapped under the glass,and so for years my Mother had to set this picture back upright and never knew I was the culprit.I always wondered what my Mother thought about the mysterious picture lying face down,but I never asked her.

sugaree9

that garden hoses were made from umbilical cords after babies were born.I saw the twisted cord and thought it looked like twisted garden hose

Jackie-Lee

Growing up watching Disney, I used to have a sneaking belief that the inanimate things around me really were alive. I used to apologize to things I'd bumped or kicked accidentally. "The Brave Little Toaster" was the worst. To this day I feel guilty when I throw out an appliance!

Pam

I used to believe that there was a guy in the fridge and turn the light on when you open the door.

glen

I convinced my sister that the city water turn-off valves underneath a metal plate in my grandmother's yard were places for the water man to collect on my grandma's bill and I even got my sis to put some change down there to help my maw-maw with the bill. Problem was, I eventually convinced myself it was true as well...

Ann

When I couldn't sleep, I would have to walk around the coffee table an even number (not odd) of times, then I could go back to bed and go to sleep.

Anon

That when you moved house, you wanted to change the neighbourhood, not the house. A big truck would come and give your house an injection, then pick up the house (with you and all your stuff inside) and take it to wherever you wanted to live next.

zoe

when i was a child, i had the greatest fear of getting grounded by my parents. and with reason, seeing as how i truly belived that when kid got grounded, they were buried in the ground for the duration of their punishment. when a friend of mine was grounded, i vividly remember asking my mother if it hurt. she laughed, which confused me throuroughly.

emma

My mom told me to use "elbow grease" when I cleaned. I looked for it in the cleaning cabinet but never did find it.

My mom also told me that my dad had bought a car that was "a lemon." I told her that even though I was just a kid I knew the difference.

brooklyn doughtnut

When i was four years old, I asked my Dad why the house was being pebble-dashed. He told me that it was so that if the world ended, our house wouldn't fall down. I spent my entire childhood living in fear of Armageddon from that moment on.

Louisa

I thought when we moved our neighbours would come with us and cried for weeks and weeks when I found this wasnt going to happen.

Sandy (Sydney Australia)

My Grandma and Grandma used to have this huge yard with great big trees at the end. One day my sister and I were playing in the yard and got a bit too close to the trees at the end. All of a sudden I froze because what was really electrical outlets attached to the trees looked like eyes.

My sister and I ran like heck back to my Grandparents house...yelling for them to come quick..since the trees were watching us.

My Mom told it us it was because we got too close to the road...and the trees could catch us if we got closer!!

Never did we EVER go that close to the road again!!

Anon

a draft was like a dust storm and you'd get showered with dust going everywhere. I'd even have dreams about it.

Steve

When I was six or seven, I heard a radio commercial about drug addicts. I thought the commercial meant that these were people that lived in "attics." I became convinced that people we didn't know were secretly living in our attic. For several years I wouldn't dare go in our attic by myself.

Tom

My next door neighbour always told me that the extension to his living room was a spaceship because when there was a full moon he could blast back home. I was never allowed to tell his wife and children. We went over for dinner one night and he showed me the buttons that were used to open the celing and blast off. I couldnt reach them, mind you i was scared that their nicely painted roof would collapse.

Tahlia D

I used to believe that when you bought a house, the people who owned that house had to move into yours. It used to amaze me that so many people could find someone else that wanted to swap houses with them. It wasn't until I was about 11 that I realised that wasn't how it worked

Bec :o)