lies

this strangness has been passed down the family

rape is when little boys tie little girls to trees now ofcourse my momy was terified when my mema told her this but not as much as if you go outside and the owls see you the'l bite your scalp off

Anon

when i was about 5 my parents told me that when u were in bed, and u were bad an blue alien spider would come up and bite u thenu would become an alien spider too! i was never bad because of that lol

good grl

Whem I was about 3 or 4, my sister told me that I was adopted and was actualy Robbin Robin William's son.

Mike

My poor dear friend "Al" had a belief until he was 31 that is just so sad. He came from a family of abusive alcoholics that were extremely dysfunctional. One day we were out at some event in a park - it might have been a 4th of July picnic - and it came out that he honestly believed that all the families and kids that appeared to be having fun and getting along nicely with each other were only playing their proper public roles. In his family that was how everyone was supposed to act in public so the "social workers wouldn't get them and take them away". But all the way til that conversation at the age of 31, he believed that all the happy families were just play acting. I think he may still, to this day, have a few doubts on it. Its so sad that anyone has to grow up in a way that could allow them to believe that and for so long.

A friend

My friend, a rabid liar, told me in the first grade that he had tied up my dad in his living room. He tols me he put his baby brother on his head to make him look taller and put on a disguise. He also explained that our computer was having trouble because his baby brother had drooled on the keyboard. I half believed him for a while.

Scott

When I was about 6 my older sister told me I was adopted and that my real parents were the Indians who owned our local sweet shop and were currently going through the courts to try and get me back. When I asked mum, she laughed, and I ended up believing this until I was 10yrs old. I never used that sweet shop.

Mercedes

a couple of years ago (2002-2003) my mum got a boyfriend who had a son around 9 yrs old. there is a village near me called thurgoland and i told him there was big frog-like creatures called thurgos what attacked you. one day we were walking in a wood when his dad went into this abandoned barn and i told him there was a thurgo nest in there....he got so scared he almost peed his pants! he is now 10 and still believes it!

jay

When I was in seventh grade I believed there was a left handed screwdriver. My teacher told me to go home and look for one. Come to find out theres no such thing.

Anon

When I was in primary school, one of my classmates was a bully (his father was a policeman). He would threaten me that he would my get my dad arrested(without any crime?? ; ) ).I was forced to give him my stationaries for him not to do so. How I beleived him then, I feel like thrashing him now.

ashish

I used to have to hang around with a kid called david who was much younger than me because his mum was friends with my mum but I didn't want to hang around with him so I used to make up stories so that he wouldn't come out with me and my mates. I once told him that the Chicago Bears were training up at the park and if they saw him then William "the fridge" Perry would jump on him and squash him. Another time I told him they had built a spaghetti junction in our village up South Row and it was too dangerous for him to come and play with me. I feel a bit guilty now but at the time I thought it was well funny. (And he believed me).

Malc

When I was in second and third grade, I had a grandiose delusion . . . well, to be more accurate, I didn't have it, I thought of it, and convinced my best friend, Jonathan, that it was true.

I told Jonathan that this other kid (whom I really didn't know that well) named Eric had super ESP powers, and that I was his "manager", basically. Jonathatn devoted so much time and research into ESP so he could be my 2nd manager in command . . . wow, he must have one heck of an inferiority complex by now.

John 117

My father told me that if I lie my mouth will stink.

Bhadra

That kids weren't allowed in Hawaii - my dad told me this when I was younger and wanted to go

Stephanie

Me and a load of mates convinced my sister and all her mates that Lisa Stansfield (she of "Been around the World" fame) used to be a bloke called Stan Lisafield who was a coal miner from Yorkshire before becoming a singer ... she managed to convince her whole year at junior school it became Gospel ...

Robert

My parents are friends with another family from work, and this family has two kids, both of which are younger than me. One day, when they came over with their sons to visit, I got bored and told them that the antennae on the roof was actually an alien spaceship, and that if they got too close to the fireplace, an alien would come down, grab them, and eat them. They believed it entirely, and I thought it was pretty funny until they started throwing basketballs at the "spaceship"!

BG

i used to believe that if u lied ur tongue would fall out

Mari

My mom told me that if you get eyeliner in your eye, you go blind.

Anon

when i was in 3rd or 4th grade my friend told me that her father was howie dorough and that she made up the song you drive me crazy by britney spears and that britney spears had actually stolen it from her...i believed her for a week.

STUPID STUPID ME

my dad used 2 tell me dat he bought me for a discount price of 100 bucks....nd i was mad at him till i was 11 fer buyin sch a cheap kid

cajena

i used to tell my little sister that she really didnt belong in my family and that her real family will come get her soon and it would make her cry alot but then she told and i got in trouble :/

chelsea