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My older cousin (actually my father's first cousin) is a hunter, and once when he was on a hunting trip, he shot this gigantic bear and had it stuffed and put in the reception area at his business. When my father and I came to visit him at work for the first time after it was delivered, I was very small at the time, and was naturally quite frightened of the bear. My cousin noticed this, and for some reason thought he would make it better by telling me the bear came alive when everyone left for the evening, and for years I kept visualizing the bear lumbering around his business in the dark (which would have been chaotic, since he owns a cattle breeding operation). I've since grown up and that bear still scares me. He also used to tell me there were mountain lions at the creek by my house. I think he liked to scare me.
no longer paranoid about large animals
a donkey is just a small horse.
When I was 4, I saw a nature television show about bees. As you may know, bees do a little "dance" so that the other bees can find flowers to acquire nectar for the hive. This impressed me a great deal and I thought about it.
The next day, my mother was reading me a story about a horse, which mentioned that horses like apples. After thinking for a moment, I asked her,
"Do horses do a dance to show other horses where the apples are?"
Chris Robison
As a kid I remember being exposed to various books, some showing farm animals, including sheep. At one timd I got the idea that sheep were just as big as cows. Later, perhaps from never having seen any sheep that big, I went through a period of doubting the existence of sheep altogether, thinking sheep must be imaginary beasts that I had dreamed up.
Bryan
when i was around 10 years old i believe that the lizard and mosquitos are somekind of hidden surveillance camera that my parents use to check out on my behaviour when they're not around.
dien
My mom used to tell me (on long car trips out in the country) to look for the cow-pigs. They were cows with curly tails and pink spots. I would stare out the window forever looking for one (Funny how she always saw them just when I was losing interest but they would always be far off in the distance and I would have to look really carefully for more.)
laura
I thought squirrels tails were solid (not fluff & more like beaver tails) - I guess that I got this idea from depictions in disney movies. Yeah - I finally noticed that this wasn't true a few years ago at age 17ish. (Boy do my friends get a kick out of this story)
jenna
My sister is a college student and just this past easter she and her room-mate admitted to believing that rabits lay eggs since you always see eggs and rabits on easter. We still haven't let them live that down.
Kayla
once, when i was like 4, we had a little family gathering at a farm. this cow started peeing, and i yelled, in front of my enitre family, "look mom, the cow is milking itself!" man, i was dumb, and still get made fun of 12 years later!!! urgh...
Chrystal!!!
when visiting a school in washington as a child we were travelling on a school bus. the bus passed a field with cows in it. I asked some of the other children what they were as we did not have them in england. they all fell for it.
I used to think a banjo was a type of monkey!
Skylla
i used to belive that mice were evil and that was why elephants were scared of them but then i had a pet one and i hide from it when i went into the room so i had to get rid of it because i wouldn't go to sleep until i was sure it was a sleep therefore i was deprived of a lot of sleep
When I was a kid, my cousin convinced me that acorns were rabbit eggs. I went around stompin' on acorns for the rest of the day lol... She also told me my kitty would fly if I threw him in the air, needless to say...He never came back home...
Stephanie
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
My mother told me that we she was little, her mother (my granny) pointed to the fields at dusk and said "Oh, listen to the quail."
Mom was sure she said "...listen to the whale" and she thought she could she a whale running about in the nearly dark woods across the field. So she refused to play outside all summer for fear of the whale.
Goggy
i used to believe that horses were canibals and if you were alone with one it would eat you in under 15 seconds my sister said they did and she made me really scared. idiot
Frank
when i was younger, about 4 or 5, my parents bought me some fish for my birthday. but the next morning when i woke up they were dead. i was so devestated that they went out and bought me 2 more fish. That night those 2 fish died but knowing how upste i would get while i was sleeping they got my grandma to go but 2 more fish. the only fish she could find has spots on them. so when i woke up and notice my fish had spots on them my mother told me that they had the chicken pox. and i believed her, until i was like 14. i also told everyone that i knew that my fisg had had chicken pox. when i was telling an elderly neighbour is when my mom finally told me the truth.
~*~SADIE~*~
i used to belive that an all white horse was a unicorn but humans caould not see there horn.
the ditz of the group
i used to beleive horses were evil so i was petrified
When we drove by my sister used to comment about all the mushrooms in the fields. Of course, they were actually sheep!
Simon
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