When I was around 4 or 5, I asked my one-legged older cousin where his other leg was. He told me he had fought with a shark, which bit it off. I believed that right through to my teens.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- A friend believed that they used a tame shark during the filming of "Jaws".— Wendy
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- i used to think "black dog" by led zeppelin started out like, "big-legged momma, see the way you moo."— ginny
- I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.— Afterlife Dreamin'