when i was little and i heard my dad say kids were being brain washed, i thught they literally opened up your head and washed your brain with water and soap.
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If you put your hands out of the covers at night, then ghosts will come and take your hands and give you ghost hands.
When I was little I believed that stoplights were activated when they saw their specified color. So, being a redhead, I'd duck every time I saw a stoplight.
When i was 5 years old, my brother convinced me that monkeys lived in water tanks. And i always went looking in peoples water tanks to find the monkeys. I soon realised that he was lying.
I used to believe that we had Duracell batteries in our rib cages.
I once asked my mom when our batteries would run out. She admitted that she was unable to answer the question.
Apparently, my mom and her friends were very ladylike. Until I was about 23 and living with my fiancee, I was utterly convinced that females were physically incapable of farting.
So, it turns out that Neil Diamond song ISN'T about a country pastor that goes by the name of "Reverend Blue Jeans."
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You had to wait an hour after eating ANYTHING, even one M&M, before swimming.
I used to believe that the kids poem "finders keepers, losers weepers" really said "finders keepers, losers sweepers." I figured that Cinderella had a hard life, and she did a lot of sweeping!
My older sister used to tell me that ants were bees. My mom was very confused when I refused to go outside.