My grandparents as well as parents all told me that if i swallowed the watermelon seeds, it'll start to grow inside my stomach and a watermelon tree will grow through the top of my head. Naturally, the theory applied to all other fruits.
I still don't understand what's the big deal with swallowing the seeds? is there really any harm at all?

Katy

My mother said that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon tree would grow on your head. I would try hard not to, but whenever I think I accidentally did, I constantly checked the mirror...of course, the tree never grew =(

Anon

When I was younger, I used to think that if you swallowed a fruit seed it would grow in your stomach, so I cried when I accidently swallowed a watermelon seed. I believed it until I was 10.

Madge

When i was about 5 or 6 i used to believe that if i swallowed a seed from a watermelon, it would start to grow in my stomach. it would grow so big that my stomach would get bigger and bigger and bigger!! I believed this until i was about 9!! :)

Sa!

When I was little I thought that when you swallowed seeds, a tree would grow in your stomach. I thought that when you drank water that would make the tree grow bigger, so I got really scared when I swallowed a watermelon seed by accident. I thought that a watermelon tree would grow in my stomach. I told my mom that and she laughed at me.

emmy

I watched rugrats and they had a show on how if you eat watermelon seeds it would go in your stomach and grow and you would sooner or later explode .

azhip

One time when i was young, about 4 or 5 my dad had an obbsession with sunflower seeds, and still does, i soon inherited this obsession. He told me one day to only eat the seed. Because if i ate the sheel i would poop it out and it would hurt alot. And still to this day i have never ate the shells......

Amy

My parents told me once that if I eat the black watermelon seeds then a watermelon will grow in my tummy. I thought that was cool!

angel

My mother once told me that if i swalloed a Watermelon seed Thst i would grow watermelon patch in my stomach. Well needless to say one day i swalloed a seed. I LOOKED in the mirror every day thinking it was going to grow annd that eventually my stomach wpould explode.

Anon

My dad used to warn me that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, a tree would sprout out the top of my head!

Samantha from California

My grandpa used to tell me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed that it would sprout and grow in my stomach. I used to imagine this happening and the vines of the watermelon growing out my ears.

Silly Girl

When i was around 5 i thought that if you ate watermelon or orange seeds a tree would grow out of your ass.

Guido

if you swallowed a watermelon seed, watermelons would grow in your stomach.

kristin

My mom always told me that if I swallowed seeds from a piece of watermellon that I would have watermellons growing out of my ears!! I use to check the mirror because I swallowed some by accident!

Vicki

I used to believe that if you ate any kind seed (mainly water melon) that you would get a plant growing inside your belly and after a while it would come out of your mouth and that you would die because of it. (It didn't help that my mother actually told us that this would happen either. I still dont swallow watermelon or passion fruit seeds, even though i know they wont hurt me.)

Aditu

I believed that if I swallowed a seed from any kind of fruit that the fruit would grow in your stomach. OnceI swallowed a watermellon seed and was scared to death that a watermellon was going to grow inside me. It took a lot of convincing by my parents to convince me it wouldn't.

T.A.H.

I used to believe if I ate a watermelon seed that I would blow up real huge because it grew inside of me and that I'd explode.

Anon

I used to believe that if you swallowed a watermelon seed and drank water, a watermelon would grow in your belly.

Shaun

when i was little my sister told me that if you swallowed an apple seed you would turn into an apple. I got so terrified and i never ate to the seeds. I still dont eat to the seeds. [it became a habit.]

Anon

pregnant women got the big stomachs from eating watermelon seeds

Tiffany Ellis