I use to think sheep shrank when it rained.

Anon

for years I thought a rubber sheep inhabited our garden. I was about 8 or 9 before it turned into a rubbish heap.

Anon

a friend of mine and I had an argument when we were in the sixth grade because she refused to believe that sharks really existed. she thought they were fistional, like mermaids.

elisa

I used to believe that when sheep die, god takes their wool and makes it into clouds

Oded

Okay, this one's for my sister. When she was about 24 years old, she and her cousin rented an apartment together. Well, one evening he was watching the Discovery channel. The program was about zebras. My sister walked by him and began to laugh hysterically. When he asked her why she was laughing, she said "You don't really believe in zebras, do you?, I guess you believe in unicorns, too".

MJF

When I was very small I had a stuffed monkey, which I loved. One day I left it on the bus and my mother couldnt get it back so she later went out and bought me a cuddly giraffe. I cried when I noticed it wasnt the monkey and my dad said that when monkeys grew up they grew into giraffes. I believed this until 5th grade when we were learnng about evolution in science.
My teacher asked:"what did apes and monkeys evolve into"?
Si put up my hand and said:"GIRAFFES" everyone teased me for months after that. I have never been able to forgive my father.

Emma

I used to believe that the "beeswax" in furniture polish came from the ears of bees - 'cos my wax came from my ears ( frequently syrenged as a child)! I used to wonder how they caught them, how small their ears must have been and if they had really small cotton buds made especially for the purpose.

Dishy

when i was little i thought that NAVY SEALS were actual seals that were navy blue

Anon

I was 5 or 6 when my father told me that there were elephants that lived in the trees across the street. At first I didn't believe him, but he said they only came out at night. So we left some peanuts out for them one night. The next morning when the peanuts were gone I was convinced that there really were elephants that lived in the trees!

Anon

When I was a little girl my dad once pointed out to me some deer droppings while we were on a camping trip. Apparently he was pointing at the real thing, but what caught my attention instead were blue juniper berries on the ground, and I thought that this is what he was referring to. For years I thought that juniper berries were deer poo and wondered why it was blue and how the heck the deer got their poo to stick to the trees like that...

The Blue Wyvern