When I was about 7, I would sometimes find what I now would consider a "mutant" ladybug: black with orange spots, opposite to normal coloration, but otherwise just like a ladybug. Clearly, however, it was not a ladybug. It therefore had to be a "manbug".
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe chocolate milk came from cows with brown spots.Anon
- My daughter belived that she was getting old because she had brown spots (freckles) like an old banana— lauren
- I used to think that jewish men wore "kippots" or "yarmulkes" to cover their bald spots..— Charlotte
- I used to believe that the opposite of “impressed” is “pressed.”Anon
- I used to believe that when I went to the mountain I would find an ancient monster or find some treasure— Yazer Solorzano