When I was five, I heard a joke (I can't remember it now) but the punchline was that someone farted and blew up a house. For a long time I was afraid to fart because I thought I would blow wherever I was up!
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you had to fart and held it in too long that it would cause you to blow upAnon
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- when i was little i used to beleive that if i coughed, sneezed and farted at the same time i would blow up— fart
- I was told in first grade that if you fart burp and sneeze at the same time you would blow up— bob doodle
- I used to believe that if you farted really hard, you could fart a hole in your pants. How dumb was that?— stargirl
- My mom used to tell me that if I swallowed my gum when I farted, I would blow a bubble out of my butt.— bubblebutt