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when i was 18 my wondeful mates told me all about drop bears .. i spent 400 kilometers on the back of a motorbike being " drop bear spotter" for the driver ... they did not tell me the truth for 3 months .... there are actually 2 sites for drop bears which i use today to help me convince peole of the existence of the mysterios drop bear .. 1/2 wombat 1/2 koala with huge sharp fangs and claws ....
headless chicken 2k
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My Dad used to tell about sidehill gougers, a moose looking elk with legs shorter on one side than the other, the better to go around hills. If they went in the valley they would fall over and die. They lived on the hills of SE Ohio. Courting sidehill gougers would burrow under the hills with corkscrews that grew on their noses at puberty (like antlers), and they could walk on the round sides of the tunnels, and pop up on an unrelated hill. There were clockwise and counterclockwise gougers, and they could not intermarry, or 75%their kids would have cross dominant legs, short and long on the same side, and be unable to walk and survive. I was very, very disapointed to find this was not true. I am glad to see others had the same story told to them in their childhoods.
I also thought cows were girl horses, and cats were girl dogs, that all horses and dogs were boys, and that chipmunks thought they owned your house and were hitting you up for rent when they chattered at you.
Jill
I once believed that fossils were everywhere. After reading about fossils at school, I went home, found a hammer, and started breaking every piece of rock and chipped cement, looking for a dinosaur bone
Glenn
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I was raised in the city so growing up was not exposed to many animals. When I was 6 on a cross-country trip to visit relatives with my family. My father pointed out some cows and said "Look how fat those horses are!" I believed him and continued to think cows were just fat horses for a very long time.
quinn
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I used to believe that we had invisible giraffes in our house. Whenever my mother said, "There's a draft in here," I used to think that she was saying "giraffe." I'd look and look and couldn't see a giraffe. The idea of something that large wandering around the house without me being able to see it was quite frightening.
Penny
As a kid I think I asked to many questions. My Dad finally explained how the sheep stood upright on the steep slops of the mountains by telling me that they had shorter legs on one side. My biology teacher found that a unique proof of natural selection.
R Campbell
I used to believe that goats were male sheep. This persisted until I was at university and my boyfriend took me to a city farm so I could see goats and sheep - and male sheep - together.
Flash
I used to believe that the cows in Switzerland, the ones who could be found grazing in the Alps, had a set of legs that were shorter than the other, so that they could stay balanced on the hills. It is my parents that told me this, and I believed it well into my late teens.
Christopher Lamothe
When I Was A Kid My Dad Told Me That On Christmas Eve At Midnight All Animals Fall To There Knees And Pray He Even Backed It Up By Telling A Story About A Farmer That Did'nt Believe The Story And One Christmas Went Out To His Barn At Midnight And Saw His Cows Praying And The Next Day They Found Him Dead.
Chris
I used to think I was a tiger, I even made my friends play "animals" with me, where I learnt to walk (four legged) on a very narrow wall, and I made myself a cave where i had tiger toys and pretended they were my children.
I also, could run on 4 legs (u know wat i mean) REALLY well, i'd do it all the time down the hallway until we got our new house, and by then, i must have been 13... Yeah I know! I was crazy, but I could run so well, if anyone ever would have had a competition i could win SO WELL!!
Scrabz
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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.
chan
I used to believe that cows in wales had longer back legs than front so they could stand on the hills... my farther told me this which for some reason i believed until i was 16 years old.... very odd i know.
Alex Boyce
One time while on a family vacation driving through the mountains we passed several steep cow pastures. The cows all appeared to stand sideways on the steep hills and my brother wanted to know why they didn't face down or uphill. My Dad said it was because they could only face the way that they were born to face because they had shorter legs on one side of their bodies and the cows had to walk all the way around the hill to go up or down because they'd fall if they tried to go straight up or down. All the way through the mountains every trip we'd be on the look-out for falling cows!
Valerie
Before my twelfth birthday, I walked over to the store my grandparents owned, where my dad worked the meat dept. There was a tank of little fishes, twelve of them, the pet kind. I asked him what they were for, and he had me convinced they were being raised to sell in the store....as in, as meat. Boy was I surprised to get them for my birthday....
Steph, who's dad is very convincing
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When I was maybe 4 or 5, I dropped my mitten down a sewer grate. For some reason, I thought that wolves lived down there just waiting for little girls to drop their mittens.
Kim
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my older sister once told me that pandas created the universe, legend had it that they were bored of being alone so they drew us on paper and gave us life, angered by their mean ways, the humans revolted and took over, sending pandas to zoos as punishment.
Diego G.
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I used to believe,, when I saw the Deer Xing sign , that there was an animal called a Xing,, that nobody had ever told me about,, you know you have too,..
Cher
when i was little, my mom took me to see the movie jaws . she says that after that, i was afraid to lay abck and wash my hair , scared a shark would get me.... i was also afraid of the moon, thinking it was gonna fall out of the sky..
ses
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I used to believe that if you encountered a skunk and it sprayed you, you would have to go home and get rid of all your clothes. I'd heard my folks talking about someone they knew who encountered one on a fishing trip "...and she had to burn all her clothes." I was terrified I'd run into a skunk because I had a dress at home I really liked and I wouldn't want to have to go home and burn it.
Kathy
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