around the house

Once, to get me to stop wasting water/electricity, my mom told me that every time you turn on the lights it cost 50 bucks on your electric bill, and when you turn on the water it cost 50 bucks on your water bill. For years I wondered where my parents were getting all this money from, and how anybody could afford water and electricity.

Tim

I used to believe that the red carpet all through our hallway and stairs was the sea , with Jaws living in it. It had gone solid because there was so much blood in it, but Jaws might make it watery again at any time, so I ran every time I had to set foot on it.... :)

Jennie

When I was about four, I was playing with my three-year-old sister and I somehow convinced her (and myself) that the way people sew is by sticking their needles into the electrical sockets, and then the thread appears. So I grabbed a fuzzy wire and stuck it in. Needless to say, I had to be rushed to the hospital and my entire hand and nails were black. I was luck I didn't loose feeling in my arm. Smart kid.

k

I was messing around in my mum's room one day, when I found a calculator. I thought it was absolutely incredible, and used it as a makeshift Ouija board for a while. I would ask it something like, "Will I ever get married?" and would just pound the keyboard, until a few numbers showed up, and I would "dechipher" their meaning. It wasn't until like, third grade when I finally figured it out.

Holly

I used to believe that there was someone hiding in our house. I didn't know where or who, but I always pictured the person as my friend Alexa. I was freaked out to be the first to go to bed at night, because I thought the person would be sneaking around in the dark.

Natalie

My family was very poor while I was growing up, so my sister and I used to dig holes in our yard to try to find the diamonds in the earth's crust that we learned about in school so we could give them to Mom and Dad so we wouldn't be poor anymore.

Jamie

My mom (in what I guess was an attempt to keep me from draining hot water) told me that sinks we not equipped enough to handle boiling hot water and that if i poured boiling hot water down the drain it would explode. TO THIS DAY i cannot pour hot water down the drain without first diluting it with cold water!

MGM

I used to think there was a secret passage in the house that led to another floor where my parents kept all thier secrets from the past.

Anon

I used to believe that penguins lived in the back of my freezzer

JOE JOE

when i was little, i used to believe that a "self cleaning oven" meant just that...i imagined robotic arms and soap bubbles coming out of the inside of the oven scrubbing the walls and racks...and then water spraying to rinse it and then all of it neatly dissapearing again when it was finished. i never saw what really happened because my mom would never let us near the kitchen when she was cleaning because of the chemicals. she kinda laughed when i told her one day but also seemed very slightly annoyed that she never got credit for working so hard to clean it all those times cause i thought it was automatic!!

silly girl

I used to have a big bookcase in my room, and whenever I heard a noise that I couldn't explain (air conditioning kicking in, etc.) , I thought that it came from behind that bookcase. Eventually I realized that there was a man behind my bookcase who was as flat as a pancake that tried to lure me out with his weird noises. Even when we moved, I imagined that a mover guy was trapped behind the bookcase and became the new Pancake Man. I was terrified of the Pancake Man until my mom decided to paint my room and moved the bookcase away from the wall. When I asked her where the Pancake Man was she gave me weirdest look and asked me what I meant. I'm still afraid to look behind bookcases...

cucumber

i have dreams that seem very real to me. when i was young i was having a conversation with my mom and brother it was one of those "hey do you remember when...." conversations.. everyone laughed at me when i asked "Hey do you remember when the goodyear blimp crashed into our willow tree?~!?" i was crushed when they told me it didnt happen

amber

when i was little we had a vent in our kitchen floor when i asked my dad what it was he said it was a heat duct (i heard duck) and that heat duck monsters lived down there and would pull me down if i got to close. for the longest time i wouldnt even go near there..

Shyla

When I was 4 or 5, my mother told me if I put anything in the A/C vents in our house, the entire building would blow up, and kill us. I beleived her til I was 14 ='(

Sadface

when i waz about 5 or 6 i believed that the people in the radio and on t.v. were little people in then radio and in the t.v. so when ever the t.v. asked a question i would answer it thinking they could hear me and i never went to close to the t.v. cause i thought they would jump out and scare me. stupid huh. =)

=P boogie monster =P

I used to ask my mum to tuck me into bed at bed time and she used to reply "i cant ive got a bone in my leg" and of course every1 has a bone in thier leg i realised this when i was 8

phoebeeeee

My mom always told us if we sang at the dinner table, we would go to bed crying. At the age of 16 I finally scraped up the courage to ask her why. She said, "Because if you sing at the table, I will beat your butt!"

Lori

I used to believe that elderly persons, especially the rich, never go to the gents or to the ladies. I was surprised the first day I discovered my Mum going to the Ladies (I mean going to ease herself).

Nsah Mala

When I was younger I used to believe that when my brother or sister chased me with the vaccume that I would get sucked up.

Suzanne

I thought that all of my dolls and stuffed animals were alive and hated me. I only really liked two of the stuffed animals and none of the dolls, but I believed that if they ever figured this out, the unloved ones would kill me. I made sure to look at each one the same amount of time so as not to show favoritism. At night, each one had to be in my bed and touching me so that it felt loved. If any of them stopped touching me before I fell asleep, I was sure that they would kill me. (Yeah, I have pretty significant OCD.)

Becky