I thought the word hallucinate was actually "hellucinate" because it was hellish. At one point I asked my mom and she said "no it's hallucinate because when you do it you see Hal!" and I believed this for a long time
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- I believed for a long time that brown cows gave chocolate milk!— Evil Mom
- I believed that linguini was made of tape worms and was scared to eat pasta for a long time!— Mojo!
- I used to beleive that if you point at a graveyard, it would point back!!(whatever that meant)— scary ashley
- Hasn't everyone, at some point or another, believed that pickles grew on trees? I sure did.— Matt c.
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin