When I was about 6, my friends and used to gather around the man-hole in the neighborhood, dropping pebbles through a crack. Why? We were convinced that there were turtles down there, living in the sewers like the Mutant Ninja Turtles.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- If someone broke into my house at night my ninja turtles would come to life to protect me.— blip
- When my dad was little his older siblings convinced him that there were flocks of flying turtles.— Anonymous
- When I was a child i thought turtle wax, was to wax turtles.— J.P.
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B
- Turtles can fly. I believed it for ages.
My turtle got lost or probably died and I was told it flew away.Anon - When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!— All Grown Up Now!