When I was in the 8th grade we moved into a house that had camel crickets in the basement and my new friend next door told me that they were poisonous. To this day, though I know they aren't something in the back of my mind tells be to "be careful of the dreaded camel criket.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate to much cookie-dough you'd turn into a camel.— Lenny
- when i was younger i thought that when you moved house your house moved with you!!— chrissy
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - I used to think when we moved, it was because we were exchanging our house with the buyer's... — Pat
- When I was 4 I believe that the crickets "chirping" were the stars twinkling.— mel