When I was about 10 years old, my grown-up cousin took a couple of us kids for a walk up a mountain in Scotland. I think we must've been dragging behind because my cousin suddenly shouted "come on you two, there two bl**dy great snails just gone racing past". If he thought this would speed us up he was totally wrong - we spent the next hour convinced that we could find these two big snails that had raced past us!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When i was little, (4 or so) i convinced myself that snails only ate apple peels.
I have no idea why.— Terracrafty - I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- I used to believe that drag racing was when guys dressed in drag raced each other. LOL— Emmy
- As an artist, i used to believe that my drawings were visions of my past life.(i had a good past life)— Blind dreamer
- My little brother once asked my mother when we past a couple of factories.. if the factories made clouds— nicky
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly