I used to believe that ants did work thanks to very very tiny batteries. I didn't dare to kill them, but, when I did discover an ants corpse, I tried to open it carefully to try to find the batteries, and show them to mom and dad
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that if we didn't spray the ants, there would be hundreds of them in my house taking over.— Rob
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- my nephew used to believe that when people died, they just needed new batteries.— p-daddy
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler
- I used to think that putting batteries in your ears could electrocute your brain. Hahahaha.Anon
- I used to suck on the ends of batteries intent on gaining super electric powers. Anon