When I was about five or so my dad had a friend who had a daughter who was sixteen. The daughter told me that if the wind was blowing, it meant there were aliens on the roof, and the wind was their spaceships' fans, and they were blowing to keep the machinery cool, like a computer fan. She said if I went outside when the wind was blowing the aliens would abduct me. I was terrified of this for years; my parents had to literally drag me out of the house if they wanted to go somewhere when it was windy.
Then one day I got up my courage and went to look for the aliens. The wind was blowing really hard, but when I looked up on the roof there were none. Then it hit me that I had been had.
A childhood belief about aliens
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if i looked at trees, the wind would start blowing. Anon
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I used to believe that the wind was caused by trees so you could stop the wind by getting rid of trees.— Nira
- i used to belive that if you talked into a bubble while blowing into it it would say what you said before— austin franck
- I used to think that if you stared real hard at the wind, you could see the angels.— Bradon
- I used to watch the clouds blowing across the sky and think I was seeing evidence of the earth's rotation.— Dave T