when i was about 6 or so my brother and his friend had told me that hammerhead sharks actually had a hammer for a head. so i used to believe that the hammerhead shakr would hit you with its head. I believed this until i went to the aquarium and found out they just had flat heads.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that mosquito larvae were baby hammerhead sharks. Made the ditch a very dangerous place!— Karen
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily
- when i was small my brother always told me that if you picked your nose your head would cave in— Eric
- my sister when she was little thorght head lice tried to borrow into her head to get to her brainAnon
- i used to belive that if i fell on my head my head would come off while i was doing a cartwheelAnon
- When I was small, my brother would bug me and say that if my hand was bigger than my head, I had a tumor.Anon