I was 7 years old when"The Excorcist" first came out and there tons of scary rumors about this film. My aunt knew a woman who had aged twenty years while watching it. I of course believed her.
A childhood belief about films

others believed things like this
- When a grown-up is shown as a child, it was actually them, and the film took 20+ years to produceAnon
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- I used to believe that Marilyn Manson was a extremely scary woman!— Tim_NOrway
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- I used to believe that an animated film meant that the film had live animals in it.— reverb
- When I was about three years old my dad said that he was ten years old and I believed him.Anon