I used to believe that stickbugs were really Russian spies, and they contained a bomb in them, so if you hurt the stickbug you would die with the bomb!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an atom bomb was a dragon in the sky.— Mazzkitten
- i thought that our cats were secret spies for my parents and i would never do anything bad around them. Anon
- i used to think that the paparazzi were a group of Italian criminals or spies. i have no idea why?? Anon
- I used to think that Russian was just English backwards— Millie
- I thought all you had to do to speak Russian was add -ski to the end of every word!— nateski
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder