when I was a kid some other kid told me that if you prank call the CIA they will send a electric "spike" to your phone and it will blow up. I belived him for a long time
A childhood belief about lies

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you put geraniums into electric switches it would blow up the whole world!— Steve Jeffs
- I was told in first grade that if you fart burp and sneeze at the same time you would blow up— bob doodle
- I used to believe that if you had to fart and held it in too long that it would cause you to blow upAnon
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c. - I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon