When I was about 5 years old, I found a worm in the backyard. Me being me, I wanted it for a pet. Of course, my mother didn't want a slimy invertebrate in the house so she decides to tell me that all worms grow up to be snakes. I actually believed in this until I was in fourth or fifth grade.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- When I was five, I used to believe that worms grow into snakes.— Mz Dimple
- i thought that when it was your birthday you grow and then you didn't grow until a years time.— hello
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- I believed that garage sales were on a special day, like christmas or the fourth of July or something.— Cara