When I was about 7 (in the '70's), one of our neighboprs had one of those metallic gazing balls on a pedastal in their yard. My brother told me if i touched it, it would explode. I spent many days waiting for the neighbors to leave and then creeping up to the ball in order to test the theory. I never did get up enough nerve to find out if it were true. In fact, to this day, I've never touched one.

Ann Y.

I'm the youngest of 6 kids, and one of my brothers told me that I was such an ugly, bad baby that mom had her tubes tied the day I was born. I called him a liar, so he shouted, "MOM! Didn't you have your tubes tied when she was born so you couldn't have any more kids?" and she said "Well, yes." He teased me about it for a year. (Later, when we were in our 20s, we told our mom the rest of the story, and she was horrified!)

casey

when i was about 6 i asked my older sis wat the square root sign on the calculator was for and she told me it checks how stupid you are and i tried it out and guess what i got a million number with a decimal i figured it was very big therfore i was very stupid and started crying to this day she still reminds me of how "stupid" i really was

stupid squred

When I was little, my older brother told me that if I looked inside the gem of a class ring, I would be blinded forever. I believed him, why would a big brother lie?

Kristi

My sister Marti (4 years older than I) used to take small toys from me during car rides and put them under her lap. She said that they went to "Cabbage Patch Land" and that she couldn't get them back nor would I ever see them again. I suspect that she threw them away everytime because I never saw them thereafter. We are now 21 and 17.

Jesse F.

When I was little, my mom would always use the phrase "Your Dad Is Going To Have Your Head!" when ever my brothers and I got in trouble. I use to believe her and would imagine our heads hanging on the wall like trophies from a hunt.

Missy

when my sister was yonger, about 6-7, i told her if she was ever mean to me, or being bad, we would have to ship her back into the box she came from. needlesss to say she is never good.

kaitlin

My Brother once told me (before I could read) that the dish washing detergent in the cupboard was unset Jelly. So I poured myself a bowl of it and put a spoonfull in my mouth, much to my distaste. I was so angry and never forgave him.

I got mine back years later when I was old enough to be cunning. My brother asked me if I could get him a glass of coke, so I thought 'this is my chance to get back at him' so I presented him with a glass of Soy Sauce which He downed and spat out in distaste. Sweet revenge. We still play jokes on each other to this day and try to out do eack other each time. Bu this was th start of it all.

Pete

There was a picture hanging in my best friend's room when I was little. It included a dance class, decked out in bridesdresses, and also had one groom. My friend assured me that she was "the real bride" and that they other brides were just there to dance. I believed her up to last year, when she told me that it was false as an afterthought. I was crushed.

Lila

my friends older than me who had a pond in there back garden said that when they step into it it turns to chocolate world or anything they wanted and i believed it for years.

jordan evans

When I was little my mum used to tell me that my eyes would turn green when I lied so I would stand in front of the mirror and say things like, "I am 100 years old" or "I am a boy".

My mum said it only worked for proper lies like, "It wasn't me" and "I didn't do it" and only mothers had the power to see this transformation

Rose

My friends parents used to tell her, when there was a teacher strike, instead of explaining what it was, they used to tell her that she was sick. They also used to tell her that when the ice-cream truck was playing its song, it meant that they were out of ice-cream

Rosie

Once me and my friends were friends with this really unpopular kid who was seen as 'uncool'. So we decided to amuse ourselves as well as trying to help him out by making a potion that would make him as cool as we were. We got a bowl and put in milk, marshmallows, orange juice and soy sauce- the special ingredient. Then we convinced the poor kid that if he drunk the potion, it would make him 'cooler'. Luckily it didn't poison him, just left a bad taste in his mouth. After he drunk it he asked "am I cool now?" of course he wasn't any different.

We're still the best of friends today and ironically he is very popular in high school.

Charlie girl

My Grandfather told me that when he was small he had been brought up in a childrens home (this is true) and that children were given porridge every morning for breakfast (also probably true). He said the porrige was made in an enormous pot over an open fire and was stirred by a small child standing on a plank suspended over the pot. One day this little boy fell into the porridge and the kids at the back of the queue had to scrape the porridge off his body so they could have some breakfast (my Grandfather being one of them, of course). I believed this well into adulthood, and even repeated the tale to friends and work colleagues. It was only when someone had the guts to laugh at the story that I realised my Grandfather had embroidered the truth somewhat.

jackie

i remember when i was little. about 4-6 my cousins were really mean to me. they would always tell me that they would have to chop off my toes. i would cry and tell them i did want to. then they told me they would call my dad and ask him. it was really my other cousin on the phone. he would act as my da and say son you must chop of yuour toes. and ever scinec then they would scare me and i would never wear snadles.

PAK-MAN

My friend managed to convince a gulliable kid at various stages of school that he was superman and a robot.

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