after eating a plate of Calamari, My big brother told me that they were going to grow in my stomach and I cried and ran to bathroom and spent a few days attempting to look down my throat to see the growing octopi.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.— Annette
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie
- I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.— porkchop
- My brother used to believe when our dog was getting fat that she was going to pop. He Cried!— A very Ashamed Brother