nature

my parents told me a comforting story about thunderstorms when I would get the spooks. They said that was God and the angels bowling up in heaven...when lightning struck, someone got a "strike". LOL!

I used to believe that space ended in a blue velvet curtain and if you looked through this curtain you would see God with a long white beard sitting on a golden throne.

I used to believe that the full moon caused all "lunatics" to go berserk. Believe it or not, it wasn't until I was eighteen and started my nurse training that my fears were allayed.

I was told when very small that on any day if there was a thunderstorm lightening would strike you dead if you had told a lie or been naughty the day of the storm.

When I was in sixth grade we had moved to Tempe, Arizona. My dad told me that a bunch of men with picks, shovels and wheel barrow dug the Salt River. Well, we had a guest speaker from the Salt River Project. When she asked the class about how the river was formed, I shot up my hand and answered the same way I was told. She looked at me blankly and decided I must have been joking. I went home and yelled at my dad........

When I was little I asked my mom how hills were made, she replied with this 'when horses die and are buried their tummys bloat, making a hill...well i never walked up a hill again, { even now }

I remember planting sesame seeds from the top of a hamburger bun in one of my mom's planters. I watered and checked every day for weeks waiting for my hamburger tree, but it never came.....

I used to believe that we had to be really quiet when we went mushroom hunting. Otherwise the mushrooms would hide. (My Dad told us this to keep us in line) I think it was jr high biology when I learned the truth.

when i was six i used to play with some buttons & spread them all out on the floor, & my mum said that if i didnt put them all away they'd take root in the carpet & grow into massive button trees in the living room. it really worried me..

My mum always told me that during a storm, when there was thunder and lightening, that it was the angels cleaning up. The rumbles were when they were moving the tables and chairs to clean underneath - nice thought really!

Oh Lord not me but this woman my father used to date and her daughter also believed that the sun and the moon were the same celestial body. No shit.

I used to believe that you could see people on the moon.

I used to believe the sky was green and everybody was colorblind since they said it was blue

I was probably about 8 when I thought of this. Having grown up in a town in Florida where rocks did not occur naturally, the only ones I ever saw were in flowers beds, etc. One day, I was looking at a bunch of them, and it occured to me that all rocks must be dried up gum!

When I was very little, I believed that when people said it might "hail", that little Tasmanian Devils would fall from the sky. I thought they were saying it was "helling" outside.

I live in Las Vegas, where the only natural 'disaster' that happens is ocassional flooding. About two years ago (I was 15) after-shock tremors of an earthquake in California shook our home, and I woke up and my bed was moving. I was absolutely convinced it was Gremlins trying to carry my bed away. I called absolutely terrified to my dad who was in the hallway, and he opened the door and I jumped from the end of my bed into the hallway.

About a month later a house on our block blew up (literally) I never even woke up. And apparently it was a whole lot worse than the aftershock that scared me half to death.