I used to believe my first grade teacher's husband died because bugs ate him up. It was September and my newly wed teacher said the misquetoes were really bad the night before. Her exact words were, "It was really bad for my husband. They ate him alive."
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- When I was three I used to believe that cow and horse are wife and husband.— xenia
- My husband used to believe that kindergarten was called, "kiddie garden." — wife of mispronouncing guy
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl