My brother and I believed that snapping turtles lived in our neighbor's leaf pits in her back yard. We stuck bamboo poles in the leaves and could feel the turtles grabbing on.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- 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 a child i thought turtle wax, was to wax turtles.— J.P.
- When my dad was little his older siblings convinced him that there were flocks of flying turtles.— Anonymous
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B
- If someone broke into my house at night my ninja turtles would come to life to protect me.— blip
- when i was a kid i believed i could make things happen just by snapping my fingers like in mary poppins!!Anon