Sometimes I would walk through a room and let a fart, and then say "Watch out for that barking spider". One day my 8 year old son jumped up on the couch to avoid the spider. That's when I found out that he thought barking spiders were real.
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- Farts really are Barking Spiders, right?Anon
- Whenever on of my parents let one lose, they would say, "Barking Spiders!"— Ginger
- When I was liitle, I used to believe that if a spider would bite me than I would become Spider-Man!!!— IronManxD
- My dad would say "The snake's are barking" when he farted.— Big1
- When I was little I used to believe that dogs talked to each other when barking.Anon
- when I was a child I used to believe...that dogs barking at night were chating about their day job.— Ronald Sanchez