When I was four, my older brother told me that rolled hay bales were alligator houses, and I believed him until I was nine--I realized alligators don't live in Tennessee.
A childhood belief about lies

others believed things like this
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem
- Up until I was nine my uncle told me that the round bales of hay were cow eggs.— Fred
- My Dad told me that the big bales of hay wrapped in plastic sitting in the fields on farms were cow eggs.Anon
- i used to believe that public houses were just houses were the public could go and liveAnon
- I believed alligators lived in toilets, and one apparently got hold of my sister.Anon
- I used to think that bales of hay were cow cocoons.— Wally