When I was young, my brother convinced me that if I chewed a piece of gum for long enough it would turn into a chicken bone.
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- i used to believe that a sign in a cafe bone-fide meal meant meat with a bone in it— roy
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- In my youth,I was always convinced that my chocolate easter eggs came from my uncles chicken farm!— Jamsie
- When I was young i always thought the chicken really came from the big bucket outside of K.F.C..lol!!— kristi