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When My brother was 4 or 5 I convinced him that alagators lived in our garbage cans, so he never threw anything away, he would just hide it in the refregerator!!

Melissa

My wife and her sister used to believe that unicorns were real but that seahorses, for some reason, were not. To this day, they still have to think carefully when faced with unicorn/seahorse matters to remember which one does and does not exist.

latsot

I used to believe that pigs will take over the world one day!(Piggy Invasion)(Actually I still Do!)

Pigman

When I was little we lived out in the country. Our house was next to a meadow. One day when I was outside by myself, playing, I saw something in the meadow that scared me. I ran, screaming and crying, to the door... too upset to even get it open. My mom ran to the door, thinking I must be badly hurt by the sound of things. I gasped out "Mom, there's a huge snake, with horns!". She could make little sense of this, but got me inside and calmed me down. When I was calm enough, she had me draw what I had seen. I drew a picture of a deer, lying down in the long grass. In my mind, the only thing with no legs was a snake, and I couldn't see the legs of the deer, only its back and head. Thus, the big snake with horns.

KindraShae

For years I thought that mouse traps caught mice by their tails and then when you found it in the trap you would set the mouse free outside.

Thank you Tom and Jerry and various other cartoons.


Also mouse related-mom had a plumber and his teenage assitant come to help her with something-they found a mouse trap downstairs-the younger guy set it off and got freaked out-mom told me that the plumber told him not to worry-as mice have no teeth. He also said that mice are boneless and that is why the can wiggle around so fast.

Oh yeah-Mom must have cracked up because she works with mice.

Glowworm

My grandma used to have a birdhouse in her front yard, and squirrels would always get to the birdfeed before the birds ever got any and so she'd never have birds flying around like I guess she wanted. She used to stand at the window and get really angry at the squirrels, yelling "Get away from there you little bastards!" and so I grew up assuming that the animals that were after the birdfeed were "bastards". One morning, I noticed them before she did and I could be heard o'er the land screaming "Grandma! Look! I see a bastard already!"
My mom wasn't impressed at the time but we all find it quite amusing now.

Kayte

I was terrified of squirrels. A neighbor boy told me that squirrels lurked in trees waiting for someone to walk underneath, whereupon they would drop down onto the person's head and chew through the skull into the victim's brain. I literally would not walk under a tree for years.

Meowpossum

I used to believe that if you planted feathers, chickens would grow.. and that chips lived under the sea with the fishes...

Anon

I used to believe that whenever I heard on the news about a rabid fox or a rabid shunk, that somehow a rabbit and a fox had somehow had babies and they became monsters. Mixing any animal with a rabbit was a dangerous thing.

Stacey

When I was young I lived near a farm. On Sundays I would go out on my bike. I used to believe that there was an indian reservation in the area and we were going to be attacked only to learn later in life it was actually the cockerals crowing.

fja

I used to lie awake at night afraid to go to sleep because of the dinosaurs. I thought they were coming back to get us.

Casper

I used to believe that there no unicorns left in the world as when the great flood came, all the baby unicorns couldnt get their shoes on fast enough and therefore couldnt get on the ark and were dorwned

isi

my friend actually thought that dinosaurs were not real.
she thought that they were made up like unicorns.
she is 15.

Anon

when I was very little, I used to believe that animals could understand what I was saying to them.
I spoke with cats, dogs, birds, fishes and also spiders.

Anon

Up to this day, (I'm 18), I believed that chickens self-reproduced. Never in my wildest dreams would I assume that roosters and hens did the wild nature dance. Or cows and almost every other animal for that matter. I got schooled by my roomates, who basically laughed in my face. It was like sex education all over again. I was in denial I thought that farmers just had to feed there chickens until they got fat and the chickens didn't have any room left in their tummies so an egg would come out. What has the world come too?

Caitlin