My Uncle Ernie convinced me that he had a baby elephant in his shed. He always used to tell me it's trunk was poking out of the window until I turned round and "just missed it". I beleived him for years and never actually thought to go and check....
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- Up until I was nine my uncle told me that the round bales of hay were cow eggs.— Fred
- Thunder was my dead uncle in heaven playing a round of bowling with God.— Mike
- My uncle convinced me that if you ate octopus, the suckers on the tentacles would suck your tongue out— Minnie
- I used to be convinced that there were bald-headed beige aliens outside my toilet window.— Phil
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette
- for the longest time every i used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Barret" said "round merry go round"— lin