My grandad told me that the only way you could possibly scare a shark was to swim backwards and make a noise like a cheese.I believed him. When I found out it wasn't true, I cried like a six year old child, which I was.
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When I was little I was deathly afraid of earwigs. I always called them "Pincher bugs" and thought they would crawl into your ear and eat their way through your eardrum and into your brain, and eventually consume your entire brain.
My sister used to believe that chickens grew from the ground.
I used to think that my dog was the "BOOGIE MONSER" because he would always go and sleep under my bed!
When I was about 5, we lived right near the ocean, and my mom and I would often take walks on the beach. One day, I saw flying fish for the first time, and I thought for sure that they would fly out of the water one night and get me. I refused to call them flying fish, and instead called them "devil fish". I was deathly afraid of them for quite a while, and I still don't really like them.
My mum used to think that wasps made marmalade. it's perfectly reasonable, at their house they ate marmalade and honey, honey comes from, bees,and wasps must do something!
My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.
I used to be terrified of earwigs - because I thought that they would, quite literally, crawl into my ear & stay there when I was asleep in bed.
If you lie with your ear against the pillow really quietly, you can hear the faint sound of your pulse - can you imagine the terror I felt when I heard this, aged around 5/6, and thought the earwigs were already there!!!
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I used to believe that since humans peed a liquid that fish must have peed air and thats why there were bubbles in the water.
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i used to think that my dog was an old man in a dog costume
When I was a kid we had some pet cats, and whenever they purrred my mom would say that their refrigerators were running, so up until i was about 10 I used to think cats had little refrigerators in their chests that would open up every time you would pet them.
My brother ate a spider in the garden and my mum told me and my brother that it would crawl out of his bellybutton. I told all my friends because i was convinced it was true.
When i was in kindergarden, this boy and i had a huge argument b/c he didnt belive that dolphins were real, so until about 2nd grade i thought dolphins were fictional until we went to Sea World and saw a few.
I was convinced when I was young that if I held out two fingers and whistled long enough, a bird would come and land on my fingers. That's what Disney teaches young children - just sing like a bird and hold out your hand and they'll come to you!
When my sister was little (around 5 or so) I used to tell her that rabbits made the sound of "hippity-hop, hippity-hop" when they tried to speak. She believed me for a few years and whenever she played with her stuffed rabbits, she'd say "hippity-hop!".
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I used to believe that when sheep had their wool sheered off, they became lambds again.
one time i was at a dock and there were ducks in the water pecking at eachothers heads and i yelled "look mom there eating each other!" then my mom told me they were having sex
When I was young, mum would get up and declare that she was "going to see a man about a dog". I was thrilled because I loved dogs. Turns out she wasn't seeing anyone, but visiting the bathroom!
One time when I was at school my cat got hit on the road and then when I got home my dad told me that he went looking for me and got lost and for alot of years I thought it was my fault.
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I used to belive that there were sharks in waterbeds