When I was 10 my teacher told me that if you swallowed gum it would stay inside your stomach for seven years. I believed this until the age of 14.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi