I used to believe, after being told by a friend my age, that if you buried an ant with a chip of glass, that it would turn into a termite. We'd bury our ants one day, and come back and look for them a day later, and every time the ant and piece of glass were gone (or we couldn't remember where we'd buried them, more likely). One time we found a termite where we thought we'd buried the ant, so that of course proved it was true!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters
- I thought the cremations were for people that wanted their love ones buried at home.— Helen
- I used to think that mountains were actually buried dinosaurs.— Jena
- I used to believe that the hills were buried dinosaurs.— mellybug11
- I used to believe that people were buried in "grates".— Grate Job
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels