When I was little, an uncle told me, quite seriously, that penguins come out of people's belly buttons, and that was why we had them. I waited in terror for the day to come when the birds would start coming out, but luckily it never came!
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I had an uncle that told me that we had belly buttons for putting salt in while we ate celery in bed.— ainmama2001
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- I use to believe that people who wore tuxedos were actually wearing the skins of Penguins. — Keith
- i uses to believe that boys wee'd out of their belly buttons.— boys and toilets
- I used to believe that babies came out of belly buttons — kels
- that bunnies came out of belly buttonsAnon