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i used to belive that babies come from monkeys...

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When I was a kid my family was out for a Sunday drive one day and my dad told me the reason the cows we passed could stand on the hillside was because they had two legs that were a lot shorter than the other two. I believed that for years.
Julie

Anon

I was told that the reason why some cows could walk on hillsides was because the legs on one side of their body were shorter than the other...the person told me notice how they always walk in one direction. Since I only really ever saw cows from a passing car, it made sense to my child logic!

Steve S

When I was in the 2nd grade, I became really obsessed with dinosaurs and thought that scientists were going to bring them back from the dead. For one reason or another I truly believed that a T-Rex would be assigned to our neighborhood and get all the people by reaching in through the windows and grabbing them as they walked by. I avoided windows till 5th grade.

Cat

when i was younger my two sisters and i would always go to our neighbors' house and play various games with them. one night we were playing hide and seek in the dark and to make it less scary(we were all under 10) we got into groups of two,i was with my neighbor's brother who was 9 and i was 8. i suggested we hide in the weeping willow tree in his back yard. he asked me if i knew about the bats,i said no. he then informed me that large bats the size of owls lived in weeping willow trees and pee on anyone's head that walks by at night. since he was older i belived him. to this day i aviod walking under weeping willow trees at night.

Anon

I used to think that polar bears lived in the sky on the clouds because people always said, 'Way up there' while pointing up to describe where polar bears are.

Hailey

My friend once told me the reason sheep could stand on a hills so easily was because they had differnet length legs. Seeing lots of sheep on hills i thought this was a reasonable idea and i actually believed it. The worst thing is that i was 15 when at the time!

J

When I was around 6 or 7, I heard about koalas for the first time. I remember thinking they were some brand new discovery/invention or something. i believed this for several years..

jen

I used to be terrified of the dog pound. I thought that stray dogs were sent there and then passed through a conveyor belt that had giant sledge hammers that would come down and crush them. That is why it was called a "pound" and they had to be "put down". I still kind of think of it that way.

Kristin

I used to believe that when the term, "Guerillas" was used, I actually thought it meant "Gorillas" as in the animal.

Sue

When I was little, looking at National Geographic magazines, I believed that if you touched the mouth of any of the creatures they could bite you. To this day I am still very careful when turning pages in one.

Emily

I used to believe the torn up tires from semi's on the side of the road were alligators because of all the tread from the tires and the way the tires were torn up, it looked scary.

Jodi

I used to believe that sometimes animals would be people who had magically transformed themselves so that they could spy on other people, and they would think like people but just couldn't talk. I still get nervous whenever my dogs stare at me while I'm changing - what if it's really a person???

Anon

When I was little, I thought that sheep and goats were the same animal. Just that sheep were all female and goats were all male.

Lis

A friend told me that Killer Whales / Orcas could tell if you were a bad person or not.

If you were bad then they would eat you. I totally believed it.

Lindsay