general

When I was very young, I turned to Mum in the pet shop and said 'Mummy, when are the hampsters going to eat their sultanas?' referring to their droppings!

Sarah

When we were young, my girlfriend Bonnie's father told us that if we held a hamster by the tail,
his eyes would fall out. We were appalled!!! It was years until we realized that hamsters have no
tails.

Makeda

When I was younger I used to believe in an animal called "dahu": this animal was supposed to live on the side of mountains, according to my relatives... I've been looking for it and even hunting it for ... a long time! It had two legs shorter than the two others, so that you just had to shout to make it turn back and fall! Then you could catch it!

Dom & Lu

When I was walking along the neighborhood one day I came across a cat who meowed very loudly and consistently and kept rolling around on the grass. Since it was a female cat (I checked), I jumped to the conclusion of "poor cat, she's in pain because she needs to mate with a boy cat!" I actually carried her around for the rest of the day looking for a boy cat for her to mate with so she wouldn't be in not-mating-pain. But it was probably just one of those loud cats. Anyway, I felt sorry for her because she wouldn't be mating with anyone that day.

moon grocer

when I was very young I used to believe that bats were huge big birds that were bigger than planes that would come in the night and whisk you up in their huge claws and take you away. I was terrified of being alone and would never ever leave my window open at night.

Anon

WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I BELIEVED THAT A MOUSE GIVE ME MONEY WHEN I LOST MY TOOTH. I USED TO PUT MY TOOTH UNDER MY PILLOW AND I BELIEVED THAT THE MOUSE COMING WHEN I WAS SLEEPING.

ELIZABETH

My brother and I love to suck my mother in, because its so reliably easy. Even my sister would get her, like when she got her to believe that laboratory monkeys were being released to good homes as the experiments were finished ---these monkeys were of course fully trained and could dress themselves and sit at the table for meals, some could even talk. (Dog part coming up.)Finding it hard to give this up, I fell into tricking my future wife too (I'm getting therapy). For example we lived in England for a bit, and they had signs around saying "KEEP DOG ON LEAD". She asked what that meant (they use the word 'leash' in her country). I carefully explained how lead was used as a nutritional supplement to keep dogs calm in England, much safer in parks, don't you know. This worked quite well for some months until she twigged. That was 19 years ago, yet she still has this indignation about it.

Frank H

One time in Science class, biology, we had to disect squid, which have tenticles, which we were allowed to cook and eat after the class. I proudly announced on arrival at home to my parents about me disecting squids and then about how we all ate their testicles!! I didn't understand why they laughed at me!!

Jude Horrocks

I used to think elephants had six legs. I think this is because I saw a picture of a group of (cartoon) elephants who were standing close to each other and this gave the impression that one or more of them had six legs!(??!!)

Ruth

after watching babe the film i was so upset finding out that animals we eat were killed that my mother told me that animal died natural in britain then we ate them it wasnt til a school trip 2 france years later at 14 when i told my friends that they kill animals over here they wet themselves listenin 2 me explain n find out da true but i hav gone veggie since!doh!

kay

I used to believe the 'flying monkeys'in The Wizard of Oz were bred specially for films....due to a lying sister more evil than the witch who sent them after Dorothy.

Leigh 'still afraid of monkeys' Hawkins

My sister once tried to fool me into beleiving that she could talk to animals. She often made strange noises to nearby animals and telling me what she was saying. I wasn't so gillible however, but i never told her this. Instead i just sat back and watched her makes stupid noises, and trying to hold a laugh after observing the stares from those passing by!

Darkwulf

As a youngster my brother and i had a fascination with the fridge light(we were easily amused!) our mum eventually got sick of finding the door open and told us that baby penguins lived in the fridge and they would die if we kept opening the door because they'd get to warm. A belief that took me longer to loose than i am willing to admit!

lennie

I used to believe that all llamas had two heads. This came from the old movie "Dr. Dolittle." It wasn't until my teen years that I realized the truth.

Anon

My brother used to believe that hares were male rabbits and rabbits were female hares. The funny thing is we let him think this was true and he went on believing it until he was 18.

Izzo

After watching Dr Who I thought that cow-pats were rejected Dalek brains.

Middbo