My dad used to tell me that I had to put his dirty socks under my pillow before I went to bed at night - otherwise the hippopotamus man would come and get me. After sleeping with dirty socks under my pillow for awhile he tried to get me to put his toe nail clippings under my pillow (unless the some other type of animal-man would come and get me) - thats when my mom put an end to that (thank god!)

Lauren

i used to believe that when my parents played the nose game in the car, they would actually take my nose. so one time my daddy took my nose and pretended to throw it out the window. i cried and cried and cried so much that we had to turn around and go "get" my nose.

noseless:)

My brothers convinced me at the age of 6 to touch an electric fence. They insisted that if you used a peice of grass to touch the wire it wouldn't shock. I was knocked off my feet while my brothers laughed for days. I'm not bitter. I hardly ever think about it now.

Anon

when i was little i said that my mum was the queen and when she turned up to pick me up from school she got ambushed by little kids askin her if she was the queen and where her crown was

princess poop scoop

I used to believe that if you crossed your fingers when you were lying, you weren't really lying.

jo

I used to say to my little sister in a really mocking mean voice "you have a brain, you have a brain" of course she thought it was a bad thing to have and started crying but I kept telling her "you have a brain" and i used to tease her about it all then time, then once we were in the car and I was saying it. And she asked "Mom do I have a brain?" really smart-aleck-like. And My mom said "no. you don't" because my mom is funny. My little sister stuck her tongue out and me and said "told ya". My mom and I laughed so hard.

but then when she went to kindergarten, she told people They had brains and her teacher explained it all to her. She was so upset when she found out she actually did have a brain.

julia

I used to believe that if you were a tattle tale, then you would actually begin to grow a tail from behind. When I got older and figured out it wasn't true, i would tell my younger sisters the same thing. It was great because they would always look behind them.

Tootietilla

I always thought that "elbow grease" was a type of lubricant until about 2 years ago. I'm 19.

Erika

This isn't me Its my friend. I was outside with him ( he was 8
I was 11) And as a joke since I'm a girl, i told him that when boys get 4 their brains start to dissolve. A couple days later I saw him running through the house saying "Its true! Its true!" Once i figured out what he was talking about, I almost died laughing.

Anon

My mom used to tell me that when actors kiss on TV they have a clear tape on their lips so their lips actually don't touch. I believed that. till I saw french kissing. ew.

ryanne

My Mom used to tell me that the white calcium deposits under your fingernails happened everytime you lied. I beleived that until I was at least 14 or 15 years old!

Dana L.

When I was about 8 or 9 I convinced my little brother, who was about 6 or 7 at the time, that every time i sung the 'pink panther' tune a kangaroo was coming to chase him. He was so scared and I always tease him about it now!

Rachael

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

My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'

Dan

My Grandpa told me ALL KINDS OF STUFF when I was little. Here are a few:

1. He built the bridges at the park by the museum.
2. He owned the electric company.
3. He put the UHaul on top of the skyscraper in downtown Tulsa...by himself.

I was gullible...I believed all of these and everything else he said. I even went to school and told the teachers and students.

Christina

My mum told me that when I told a lie, blue smoke came out of my ears. The worse the lie, the more smoke there was. I thought I could fool her by putting my hands over my ears when I told a whopper. Of course then, she had a clear indicator of when I was lying. DOH!

Hannah

I found out at early that you couldn't always believe what your friends told you. When I was small, a friend of mine once told me that if you were bad or told a lie, then God put a big black mark up in the sky for everyone to see. For days, I went around afraid to look up.

Lynn

My aunt told me once that a six-legged woman had escaped from a circus in a nearby town in Mississippi. She carried this on for months. Telling me the woman had been clocked by a Highway Patrol running down the highway at 125 mph. Also she hated men but didn;t hurt women, I won't say what awful things she did to men. I believed this, not really thinking about it after awhile, until I was in my early twenties and told my husband about it. He thought it was hilarious and asked me just how many tampons this woman used.

cj

When I Was About 4, I Used To Get This Painful Little Bump (Canker Sore) On The Side Of My Tongue That Kept Coming Back. So, I Cried To My Mother About It And She Told Me That It Was A Lie Bump. Miraculously, It Always Appeared Whenever I Lied.(Which Was Probably Triggered From The Nervousness Of Lying)
I Believed This Until I Was 10 Years Of Age.

Cocoa

When I was little we drove by a nuclear reacter in a near by town. I asked what it was but my parents did not want to tell me the truth... That day it was clear blue skys and white puffy clouds so they told me it was a "cloud maker". I believed this until I was much older and in school.

When we drove by it on a fieldtrip the teacher asked us what we thought it was and I argued with her when she told us it was a nuclear plant. I got written up for that. Thanks, parents!

Mislead