When i was 4, my uncle owned a farm where i spent weekends playing. One day i went to the pig pen only to find it empty? When i asked my uncle where the pigs had gone, he told me they had gone skiing and they would be back soon. Sure enough, each time the same thing happened and the pigs would return from skiing!

Never once did i question it!

Rach

When i was 4, my cat died.I wrote a letter to him telling him how much i missed and loved him, tied it to a balloon, and 'sent it' to heaven thinking god would find it and read it to him.

me

I used to believe that it was possible that a panel full of half-starved sharks might open at the bottom of the deep end of the community pool right as i'm in mid-dive from the diving board.

ryon

i used to think that if ur animal died and u diddnt feed him after he died hed come back to eat u.

crazygirl

when i was younger i would think that if an animal went to sleep they died because of when people say that theyr putting theyr animal to sleep so i thought that animals stayed up all the time

Jenna

A few years ago my dog ran off late at night and my parents went looking for her. I went to bed and wasnt worried because she was obedience trained and wouldnt go far. About 3 months later I noticed I hadnt been seeing her around my house. I wasnt particularly worried because I was really busy with school and she was an outside dog so I though she was outside most of the time I just didnt see her. Then a week later I realized she want at my house or inside my house, so I checked to see if she was at my moms dog grooming/boarding business because sometimes my mom takes her there when she goes to work.....she wasnt there either!! I went up to my mom and asked her where our dog was and she said, "What are you talking about, she's dead?" I then realized that all the times I thought she was either at my moms shop or outside when I happened to be home she really just wasnt anywhere. My mom told me she had been hit by a car that night, but I had fallen asleep so they didnt tell me and when I woke up she wasnt home so they figured I knew what had happenedand jsut didnt want to talk. I felt so bad because I had been busy with school and ignoring her!!! :(

Anon

When I was 8, my best friend's mom died. Two years later, my guinea pig, Cuddles, also died. The next night, my mom took me outside and told me that whenever someone dies, they become a star. She asked me which star was Cuddles and I pointed to one and said "That one." She looked closer and asked "Which one?" I was pointing to two stars next to each other and I said "That one. Right next to Brenna's mommy."

Amanda

When I was three, I had a dog named Penny. She died of cancer and, since I was so young, my mother didn't have the heart to tell me. So she said that Penny went to live in a place where there were lots of other dogs and people to take care of them. I asked her if we could go visit Penny and she said maybe someday.

Years later, when I was 14, I was sitting in the car at the gas station while my mom filled up the tank when suddenly, Penny came to my mind. I thjought about why we had never gone to visit her when I was younger and only at that moment did I realize that she was dead. I cried for hours.

Amanda

When I was really young my brother told me to quickly run inside if I ever saw a vulture because it would swoop down and feed me to its young if it saw me.

Anjelique

When i was younger (2 or 3) i had a fish called FiFi, he was my first pet and eventually we got him a brother who angrily took a bite out of FiFi! I was very angry and was so upset if i had a younger brother he would do the same to me! Anyway FiFi died from his horrific injury but being so naive my mum told me a man had taken him away whilst we were on holiday and that he was in the caribbean i only found out JUST THIS MINUTE that this story was infact untrue!

R.I.P FiFi

xXxXx

Marisa P M

My friend's mom told my friend's little sister thatI when a dog died, it went to a retirement home.

ellen

i once had a dried starfish that i kept in my from. I soaked it in the bath thinking that i could revive it back to life.

feederfooder

When i was 5 we owned a cat named flora who died the same year. my parents told me that she went to live on a farm. one day we were visited my grandparents farm and i saw a cat in a barn that looked like flora. i went to pet it and it hissed at me. i went home and cried cause i thaught that flora hated me.

feederfooder

My parents told me when I was about 5 that roadkill animals weren't dead, they were actually sleeping. I believed this until I was about 10.

Anon

when my dog gracey died me and mum said that one day we would have a littel grace and old grce's soul would live though the puppy,i still believe today

eleanor.b

when i was young, my parents used to tell my brother and I that the bales of hay in the fields were dead cows. we were horrified and believed it for years.

Stacy

When I was wee I went to horse rining. Once when we were coming back from Donegal, we stopped in a resteraunt. That was when my mum made a big mistake, she said "I could eat a horse". I was horrified and told the waiter that my mum was a 'horse murderer' and made sure my dad took me to horse riding.

This went on for a couple of month untill it stopped becoming a joke for my parents.

Srange Kid