when i was about 5 yrs old, i was at my uncle's cottage and when night fell, i saw fireflys for the first time. I ran to my uncle and asked what are those things glowing in the forest? He told me that if i knew that ghosts are invisible, then they form themselves into flys and that they glow at night cause they are not flys, they are ghosts. This sacred the living heck out of me and i asked my uncle what are we going to do to get rid of them? He told me when i go to bed tonight, i was to take my toy gun with me and if any of these "ghosts" gets inside my room, i was instructed to shoot them and if i missed any of the them, my uncle will shoot them with his hunting rifle. My mother was so mad at my uncle cause i couldn't sleep for days after that. Even today, i can't look at fireflys the same way as everyone else and i'm in my mid forties
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- my uncle was a doctor, so when he told me his vw could fly, i believed.— boodles
- Up until I was nine my uncle told me that the round bales of hay were cow eggs.— Fred
- My uncle told me if you twist your bellybutton, your bum will fall off, I was terrified!— little2ft
- When I was little my uncle had a huge adams apple. He told me he'd swallowed a marble.— Stacey
- I had an uncle that told me that we had belly buttons for putting salt in while we ate celery in bed.— ainmama2001
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod