i once saw a picture of a foetus which kinda looked like my belly button so thats where i thought babies camme from!

lynne

Used to think you had babies out of your belly button...oh well.

Anon

When I was little, I noticed the little black spots inside your bellybutton. I thought these were flies so everytime I visited my grandmas house I would go into the pantry and grab the fly swater and then start swatting my belly button!!

Amelia

When I was little my dad told me if I played with my belly button too much it would come undone and all the food would fall out of my stomach. My brother was convinced he had a seed in his belly button and he picked it until it bled.

Liz

when i was little i coloured my bellybutton orange and my olders brothers and sister (i was the youngest of 5) convinced me that now my poop was gonna be orange and i didnt go poop for 3 day becuase i was afaraid that my poop would be orange....why? i dont know?!?!

DiLLY!

Until i was about 4, I used to beleive that everything i ate in my entire life was still in my stomach, whole, and if i ate too much my belly button would pop off like a cork and all the food would come pouring out!

Danielle

I remember being told that if I dug deep enough into my belly-button I would find loads of great toys to play with. I fully believed this and remember having a good digging session in my belly-button.

I never did find anything :(
I guess they were lying.

Yonnermark

Two stories. When I was young I and my cousin tricked his brother into thinking his outie belly button had one of those Aliens inside it and that if he let anything touch it, it would begin to grow until it bursted out of his tummy. He was so scared he always wore his shirt above his belly button, and cried when his mom/my aunt made him put it down.

Also my Grandfather who is fat had to have his belly button repaired because of a hernia so it was big and deep after it healed, much bigger than a normal belly button and he told me that he had an accident while playing baseball, and that the pitcher hit him in the belly button with the ball so hard it got stuck inside and that the doctors had to come take it out, and it just stayed that way. Cool thing is it was deep and big enough he could stretch it to fit a baseball inside, my Grandmother however hated when he did this, she embarrassed easily.

Buddy

when i was 2, i beleived that my belly button was a kind of organic fax machine for turning my inner-guts into cotton fluff which fed small animals that lived inside my anus. it was only when i got a girlfriend at 26 that i found this to be slightly inaccurate.

6

I used to believe your belly button was where you were tied like a baloon and that people were full of helium, because my cousin Scotty always let me play with his belly button and I could feel how it was knotted at the bottom. Whenever I pushed it, he would pretend to deflate and I would scream for help because I thought I popped him.

Brian

When I was in kindergarten my friend told me that your belly button was where the doctor tied a knot when he cut your umbiblical cord. She also told me that if you itched it too much you'd come untied and all your guts would spill everywhere and you'd die. Needless to say, I never touched my belly button after that.

Emily

My friend and I told her little sister that her belly button was where her parent blew her up and tied the knot. Her sister was mortified and ran and asked her mom....

JP

When I was little I was in a car accident. My intestines were severed, and they needed to drain stuffs from me. So I was sliced open. There is a scar on my stomach that looks a little bit like a belly button. The doctors told me it was a second one, in case the other one fell off. I definately believed them. For a long time.

Abby

I had a friend who told me that if I ate the seeds in the apples an appletree would grow from my belly button. I belivede her!

Lise-lotte

I used to believe that if someone squirted water directly into your bellybutton,say with a water gun, you would die.

Krista

When I was little, my uncle warned me that my leg would fall off if I untwisted my belly button. I said, "It will not!" but then later, when I was alone, I carefully tried to untwist my belly button to see which leg would fall off.

Sarah Jean

i use to believe that belly buttons are the parts involved during sex, that is that belly button of male and female gets tied and they will have baby...after seeing some dogs in my street having connected backwards!

yang

This one is actually my sister's. When she was about 4 she asked my mom what the belly button was for. My mom told her it was connected to your butt and it held it up by a string.

Well, years went by and my sister was in middle school. She had to take the requisite sex-ed class and the teacher asked if anyone knew what the belly button was for. My sister's hand shot up and she said, "I know, I know. It holds your butt up!" Everyone in the class started laughing at her and she was mortified, and to this day (she is now 38) I think she is still upset with my mom about it.

Anon

Just recently I stopped believing if you rip out your belly button there would be a cord and it would let your spirit free.

needless to say if depression kicked in people'd always say "Did someone stab you?"

Anon