my 23 year old roommate thought that the line "mama...just killed a man" in queen's bohemian rhapsody was actually "mama...just killed a bear".
we made fun of her for days.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- In Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, I used to think they were singing "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard!"Anon
- My mother's name was Anna. She was called "Annemor"(Duck mama). I was convinced I was a duckling.— Christine Norway
- As a child I thought that if you killed a praying mantis, you had to pay God $50.00.— stevie p
- when i was little i thought a serial killer was someone who killed people for their cereal— emily
- I used to believe if someone sued you then you had to be killed. — Imaginative_Kidd
- i used to believe that they really killed Indians on westerns.— tripod tod