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My mother once told me that a long time ago, unicorns existed. They were simply extinct because poachers killed them for their horns. I believed this until around 5th grade.

Phantom Callie

I used to believe cats ate dogs and mice ate elephants

lucien

when i was a kid i used to believe the monkey could speak

killian

When I was 12 my older brother had me convinced that the cows we used to see on steep hills were breed so the two legs on the up-hill side were shorter than the others so they could stand up straight. I used to wonder if they just walked round and round the hill to find new grass or just backed up.

Sam

When I was 5 I was in an area with alot of cows. After studying cows and their poos for a bit and noticing that the cows and poos varied in colour, I proclaimed "Black cows do black poos, white cows do white poos and black and white cows do black and white poos"

Logical yeah?

Rachel

When I wer 4 I lernt about rats. A big rat lived under our shed, a shed raised off the ground by an inch or so. Obviously rats were flat. Rats, I wer told, FLEW for the throat when cornered - aha rats could fly as well ! AND had razor sharp teeth. Not like the cuddly toys that pass for rats these days.

Phlar

When I was little, my dad told me that there were alligators in the septic tank and they were the ones who made all the noise. The septic tank was in the basement with the nintendo set (1985) so once I was done playing, I would race through the basement turning off all the lights as fast as I could so that the alligators wouldn't get out of the tank and eat me.

Lindsay

I belived that when you were driving down the road and you smelled a skunk it ment some one ran a skunk over. Then I started to think about it. Skunks can't really be that stupid. Then I realized that skunks spray when there being threatened. I felt so dumb.

Desi

i didnt believe this but sum people did and i wish it was true. my boyfriends grandad told someone that a haggis was a little furry animal that lived in the scottish mountains. they have one leg shorter than the other so can only walk up the mountain when they get to the top they fall off and then people eat them. cant believe sum1 actually believed that

Anon

You remember all those old cartoons where cats would get chased by dogs? This is how it worked in my mind: Cats ate mice, birds, or fish. Mice only ate cheese. Birds ate birdseed. Fish ate eachother. ...And dogs ate cats and bones.
I also had no idea the bones that dogs ate were actually once part of an animal. I knew about people & animals having bones & all that, but it just never occurred to me that it was once part of a living thing.
Furthermore, i thought that when animals got eaten by other animals, they'd just set up camp in the belly that was now their home & eventually escape.

Alejandro

When I was nine we went on holday to Cornwall. Near to our campsite was 'The Dolphin Riding School'. I was convinced (helped on by my older brother) that this was where you could learn to ride a dolphin........

Anon

i ueded to believe that animals could talk. So eveytime i would say something bad to my dog i would be terrified that he would say something back.

Solim Cervantes

I used to think that the reindeer was just a made-up animal used for the story of Santa and holiday cheer. I only found out differently when I went to a Christmas store with my dad and they had real reindeer on show.

Stupid

On my ninth birthday, I was eating cake in the kitchen with my friends when my mom asked me to come outside for a minute. As soon as I got out the door, I was astonished to see a real live pony standing in the street in front of my house. I actually believed for a whole two seconds that my parents had gotten me a pony for my birthday. My very first thought was, "Oh! Where will we keep her? Maybe we could build a stable in the backyard and I could ride her to school and . . ."

My mom must've noticed the look on my face because she very quickly informed me that the pony was only rented for an hour. Oh well, we still had fun riding it and it was ALMOST a dream come true.

Amanda M.