When I was seven my family moved from New Mexico back to Texas and my pet Beta Bubbles apparently didn't make the move. When I asked where he was, my dad said he was still on his way. When I got home from school, I discovered a purple fish (bubbles was yellow) and exclaimed "Wow dad! Bubbles changed colors!!!"

Holly

In the U.S., there's a brand of tuna fish called Bumble Bee. So when I was little, I thought honeybees made honey and bumblebees made tuna.

Chris

i used to think that the hills were all the dead dinosaurs that just decided to lay down somewhere and they eventually died. And after they died i thought that teh grass was their "hair" and i always wondered why "broccli" (( trees )) grew on their backs.

my parents still laugh at me to this day.

Wondering loser

i used to think that you could change the colour of a fish. i was in a pet store with dad one day and i was choosing a fish for my tank. my dad pointed to one and said "how bout that one" to which i said "nah, that ones been dyed, i can tell". i thought people had special dye for fishes to change them to nicer colours when people werent buying them.

Anon

While watching a circus on television at my cousin's house he revealed the secret of the performing elephants to me...
"there are people inside the elephants..."

Ameliep

When I was about 5 someone told me that all white horses were unicorns but only someone who was a virgin and true of heart could see the horns.

I had no idea what a "virgin" was but I became convinced I was somehow bad because I could not see the horns. I believed this until I was almost twelve.

sarah_bellum

I used to think all furry animals were made entirely of fur.

Anon

I used to beleive that animals that hibernated in the winter would just lay on the ground and fall asleep. That when the snow would hit them it would make them lose consciousness. I was afraid to walk around outside because I was scared i was gonna step on a bear or another animal.

Angelina

When I was at that short age of about 4 or 5 where you're always playing on the floor, I used to play near a step that had a gap under the door. My dad warned me one day to be careful because "drafts" came out from underneath. Only I heard it as "giraffes".

I spent so many days after that watching for tiny giraffes to come out from under the door, but they never did...

Holly

I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for stories

Anon

While on a car journey with my grandparents when I was about 6 years old my nan told me that you could tell how much milk a cow had inside them just by looking at how white they were. So obviously a cow that was mostly white was due for milking and a cow that was mostly black had recently been milked.

I beleived this for years!!

Sparky (UK)

When I was little i asked my dad why the dinasours were extinct. He told me that a large meator had fallen from the sky and caused dirt to fly up and block out the sun so they dies. WEll, i missunderstood meator and thoght he said "meat eater" so for the longest time i thought a giant t-rex fell off the moon and killed the dinasours.

Anon

When I was a kid I believed that a cow lick was the result of my grandpa carrying his children and grandchildren out to the cow barn where he would allow a cow to lick our heads. Hence why my aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, and I all had the same cow licks.

"Joe Lee"

I used to believe that if you held guinea pigs up by their tails their eyes would drop out. I couldn't test this as I could never find their tails.

Faith

My sister used to believe that a catalogue was something that cattle drank from.

Avonmouth Wendy

For several years I believed that if you stuck your tongue out near a horse, it would try to bite your tongue off. I thought that my riding teacher told me that. Turns out, she said that I shouldn't stick my tongue out while riding because I might accidentally bite it.

Bear C

When I was little, my mother use to tell me that Kidney beans came from hamsters. That was why there were so many hamsters- they were being breed so then we could harvest their kidneys. I still cannot get myself to eat kidney beans.

Christina R.

I used to believe that chipmunks grew up to be squirrels. I don't know where I got the idea from but I lived most of my childhood life believing this!

Anon

When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male.

Sheila

Not so much a belief, but an assumption. We used to drive the same route to go camping and along one road was a farm with a signpost out front. The top one said RABBITS FOR SALE and the one below it said FRESH EGGS. I always assumed the eggs were rabbit eggs. I was about 14 before it dawned on me that the eggs were chicken eggs.

Judi