My mom told me that if I picked at my belly button, it would unravel and all my innards would fall out.

R

My Mom always told me that if I played with my bellybutton the knot might come loose and my skin would unravel.

Mary

My sisters told me you could unscrew
your belly button if you played with it too much

Anon

I used to believe my grandfather's belly button was a bullet hole. I knew he had been shot by accident but he was a Doctor so how was I to know different.

Montie

I used to beleive that your belly button was like an on/off switch.
I would run around all lunch time at school pressing peoples bely buttons, or threatening the people I hated that I would press there's if they were mean to me.

I was not normal as a child.

The Belly Button Presser. =]

when I was little I was obsessed with my belly button (as every child is) and it used to grate on my grandmother's nerves to see me with my finger in my belly button. One day we were watching the news and those starving children in Africa were on it. They all had swollen bellies. That mean old woman told me that if I kept playing with my belly button, my belly would swell up like theirs and then blow up. I still cringe when I wash it.

eebie-jeebies

I always believed that if you poke your belly button too hard, it un-twists and splits your stomach and al your gutts fall out. I still believe this to this day :-S

Daisy D

When I was little I thought belly buttons would close up when you got older, but then one day I saw a guy with a beer belly, and found out that you'll always have them.

Kat

I used to beleive if your belly button came undone all the air would go out of your body and you would die.

kate

When I was little I used to think that your belly button had an imaginary cord that went up to heaven and God had a remote control connected to it. I thought that that was how God made us do things.

M G

I used to think that you belly button was an open whole at both ends and that theoretically, you could put something into it and have it come out of your belly button into your stomach. I kind of stopped thinking about it until I saw my wife's turn inside out when she was pregnant with our son. How naive am I?

Sasquatch

I had an uncle that told me that we had belly buttons for putting salt in while we ate celery in bed.

ainmama2001

When I was little I used to think that newborn babies came out of the Mommy's bellybutton. Because the babies had a piece of the umbilical cord on their bellybutton it made perfect sense to my little person mind.

Dawn Marie

I had a cruel older cousin who threatened that she could unravel my belly button with her finger and I would fly around the room like a deflated balloon. She convinced me that she had seen it happen at school, and she tortured me with the threat for years. I never asked mom if it could really be done for fear that she would find out and follow through with it!

Anon

Once when I was about 3 or 4 my dad handed me the plug for an electric fan. I "plugged" it into my bellybutton and a breeze came through the window causing the fan to spin. For about a year afterwards I thought my bellybutton could produce electricity.

Anton

i used to think that when u had a baby, it would come out of your belly button!

jackie

When i was little my friend told me that her mum died because she kept picking her belly button and if u poke your navel you get cancer .. i have never poked my navel since.

kirstie

When I was a kid,I(for some strange reason) thought that my bellybutton was the knot that held my skin on.I thought that if the knot broke,or if I got a cut on my bellybutton,that skin'd pop right off.Of course I found out how stuid I was later,and fortunately I did'nt show anyone how stupid I actually was by speaking of the idea....a6t least until now..heh.

Jonathan