When I was younger I used to believe that worms had big cartoon hands and would pull you into the ground with them.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- If you eat your boogers you'll get worms— Kit
- I used to believe that I would get worms if I bit my fingernails. — Leslie
- When I was five, I used to believe that worms grow into snakes.— Mz Dimple