When he was little my brother thought the words to the song "Watch out here she comes/ she's a man eater" were really "Watch out here she comes she's an anteater." Always made me think I was safe because those anteaters only liked men.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to think an anteater and aardvark were the same thingAnon
- I used to believe that when there was a tornado watch, you were supposed to sit down and watch the tornado.— Kay
- when i was little i thought that when we die we become stars and watch over our family that is still alive— josh
- When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day— Amine
- I thought that psychological torture involved forcing people to watch really sad movies!— Elviessa
- I used to believe that EVERYTHING we did was being filmed for someone somewhere to watch as a movie— KatBird_27