Since I can remember, my dad told me and my brother that he got us from Japanese monsters. So whenever we were being bad, he'd tell us that he was gonna give us to the gypsies. Up until the time I was about 8 or 9, i thought that gypsies were Japanese monsters.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- My older brother made me believe that wristwatches were powered by tiny Japanese men inside them.— Outsider
- i used to believe that i am american.
i am japanese . — mayumi - I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- My brother used to think that the brushes at automatic car washes were Sulley from Monsters Inc. — RJ
- When I was little my dad told me that monsters jump out from spotlights and I belived it...— Cassie