As a small child my mother told me that baby penquins lived in the fridge and that if i kept opening the door (trying to catch the light off) penquins would become extinct and it would be all my fault. I believd this for many many years!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I believd that if you ate popping candy and drank softdrink just afterwards your stomach would explode— Kat
- When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.— Missuss D
- When I was a child my mom told me that when it rained it was because the baby Jesus was crying.— Tatiana
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon
- Up until the 5th grade, I thought that all Egyptians were extinct. — Amy x
- "dildo is an extinct bird"
my 18 year old friend fell for that.— pebblezzz