i used to beleive that mice turned into elephants. i don't know where i got this beleif, as i was well aware that there were baby elephants. i remember once when we had mice in our house and i was so worried that they would turn into elephants and break through the ceiling, or stomp on us.
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I used to believe that I would one day have a dog, and I would teach him to speak, read, and even write!
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Me: Why can't the cat come inside. It's cold out.
Mum: It's ok, she's got a fur coat on.
Me: Uh uh. Where's the zipper?!?
I thought that my dog was a killer dog that was undercover and that he was like a spy or something
I used to believe that on the farm all the Black and white cows were boy cows and all the brown and white cows were girl cows!
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I used to think that there were such things as HOOP SNAKES which bite their tales and roll down hills to catch you
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i used to believe that if i didnt get out of the bathroom after 5 seconds of flushing the loo, spiders would come from nowhere and crawl all over me
I used to believe that if I squashed a big hairy spider then all his little spider friends would somehow know, and they would come and get me while I was sleeping.
I still can't bring myself to kill one.
in my senior year of high school, i was taking an environmental science course. one day, we were talking about the different biomes, and the animals that lived in them. when we got to the tundra, someone mentioned reindeer, and my friend started to laugh. she was like "there's no such thing as reindeer! yeah, sure, they live in the north pole and they fly around with santa..." we had to explain to her that reindeer DO exist, they just don't fly.
When my sister was little, she didn't know what granddaddy longlegs were called, so when she saw one in the tub, she ran off screaming, "There's a chicken leg in the bathtub!" She called them that for years.
When I was about five or six years old, my mom told me that if I put salt on a bird's tail, it wouldn't be able to fly away and I could catch it. Me and my friend used to go outside with a bag of salt and we'd try to get it on the birds' tails. I was 10 years old when I found out that wasn't true.
I used to freak out when I saw an earwig in my house because I thought that in the night he would crawl up my bed and go into my ear, then lay it's eggs in my brian and I would die because the baby earwigs ate my brain. Weeeeird.
I used to believe that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.
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have you ever seen the commercials for the cadburry eggs they have at easter? it's basically just a bunny sitting there next to a basket of the eggs.
as a direct result of this advertising campaign, a friend of mine used to believe until 9th grade that rabbits layed eggs.
At camp when iwas younger i had this strange belief that flying puppies were following me. I would say "HEY LOOK! There is a puppy in your hair!" Then people would look at me strangely... We still talk about it to this day.
One time my grandma told me that when she was little, a man in a restaraunt told her that if you put salt on a birds tail, it couldn't fly away. Well being around 6 at the time, I grabbed the table salt and was outside chasing birds for about a half an hour.
When I was little, I was a huge fan of the Rugrats. My favorite episode was the one where Chuckie adopted a roly-poly bug and named it Melville. There were a lot of roly-polies in our backyard, and we used to collect them in jars, but until I was in about third grade I thought that this type of insect were actually called Melvilles.
I used to believe that dragon flies would blow out fire! so when i saw one i would scream aaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwww!!! fire fire fire!
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when i was little my dad told me that flies kicked. I still sort of believe him to this day, even though logic tells me its not true, he has never denied it.
i used to believe if a cat ate a bird the cat would eventually GROW WINGS!