My brother once told me that if i or someone else poked my belly button. I would explode!

Steph

When i was about 4 I used to believe that belly buttons were the entrance for a tiny little man, dressed in overalls and armed with a sweeping brush,who came every night and cleared away the paper sruck to sweets and toffees that I had eaten.

fandangojo

I used to believe that the "outie" belly button shows that there is an egg inside you , and so when you had sex the belly button went in saying that you would have a baby-I was terrified when my cousin told my that! and when my belly button finally went in i was mortified!

liah

i used to believe that animals nursed their offspring throught their belly buttons after watching some show on discovery channel about gorillas. it showed a mother gorilla feeding a baby gorilla.

Anon

When i was 5 or 6 I thougt that if your belly button was an outie and you poked it 3 times in a row it would unwind all your skin and you will live without any skin and anything including clothe will make you bleed. and if you were to bleed 6 times in 1 day your blood will be drained. I belived that intill I was ten. Creepy.

weirdo. strange weirdo.

i used to always try to pull my big innie into a ouite so i would pull at it for ages untill it really hurt and went red but i still carryed on wid pencils and sticks amd my mum would tell me of fot it. so 1 day she said if i didnt stop i would untie the knote of ma belly button and i would fall apart so for about 3 years i never touched it again

lucy

When I was little, my grandmother told me that my belly button is where all my skin was tied into a knot. I took her seriously and for almost a year I wouldn't touch my belly button, wash too close to my belly button in the bath, all in fear that if I touched it the "knot"/belly button would come undone, and all of my skin would fall off.

Heaven

When i was little I used to pull on my belly button. My Grandma once convinced me that if i kept pulling on it then it would get longer and longer until it went to the floor! I believed this until I was about 10.

Caitlin

I thought your ova were in your belly button ( the little knots you get from having your umbilical cord tied,) for a long time, I used to try and pick them out and my belly button ended up all red and sore and my mom would yell at me, "get your fingers out of you belly button!" I never told her it was because I didn't want to have a baby.

Julia

when i was little i used to hoke in my belly button.that is until my mum told me that if i didnt leave it alone i would end up unscrewing my legs. i know its silly but i am still terrified of belly buttons

silly sod

When I was little, I asked my dad why I had a belly button. He said that it was how mommy fed me when I was really little. Not realizing that this was before I was born (and that it was from my umbilical cord), I was confused. Then I noticed that my mom had one too, and so I thought that before I learned to eat real food, my mom lied on her back, and put me on her tummy, being sure to line up our belly buttons, and put the food from her tummy straight into mine!

Idiot child from an idiot father

I used to believe that if I stuck my finger or something into my belly button far enough it would reach all the way into my stomach.

Kitty Lover

i used 2 belive that ur belly button was sort of like a easy acces hole to ur belly and i used to try n put food in there if i didnt like the taste of something just so i didnt have 2 taste it lol what a fool i was no wounder it never went in

laurasmith

One day I was hanging out with my little sister and saw that there was dark stuff in her belly button. I asked her what it was. She replied, "What do you mean? It's my umbilical cord!" Apparently, she had not been washing the "umbilical cord" out of her belly button for the past 25 years cause she thought the built up funk was her umbilical cord. Gross!

Christy

when my sister was born i remember her having a shrivelled up bellybutton/umbilical cord (that i thought was a raisin) that seemed to disappear after a while. i assumed it must retract into the body. i then spent the next 3 years digging for my 'raisin' that was stuck in my bellybutton. i never got it out.

jess

When i was younger, my gradfather told me that if i was to stick my finger in my belly button and twist, my legs would fall off. I did not hardly ever touch my belly button till I was 13 years old. That was when he told me the truth!

Jessica Alisabeth