My childhood best-friend had a very red-haired younger sister who had been told and believed that red-heads had a tiny orange growing from the top of their head, and once it was big enough they could pick it and eat it!
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- My 6 years younger sister used to tell me that I was younger than her. She was just growing backwards.— Taryn
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily
- Since my father had a deep cleft in his chin, I thought he was growing a tiny buttocks out of his face.— Rick
- My sister's friend thought cats were just small dogs when she was younger.— Richard Davies
- I used to believe that heads of state had diferent kinds of heads on their shoulders— stupid elado