My friend believed for years that cheeseplants ate people. There was one at our school which she would run past every day, terrified. She is still bitter about this.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- My neighbor told me that the insides of acorns tasted like chocolate. They don't. They're really bitter.— Dial Zero
- As an artist, i used to believe that my drawings were visions of my past life.(i had a good past life)— Blind dreamer
- Until I was about 12 years old I believed that homeless people were made up by my parents to scare me.— Angela B.
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb