general

When I was kid, I was under the mistaken impression that a quarter horse and a Shetland Pony were the same thing.

Bruce

When I was 7 we visited my uncle's farm in Kansas (I was a city girl). I saw a mouse laying on the doorstep one morning. Thinking it would sing and dance, like they did in cartoons, I picked it up. I was so surprised when it bit me! Later I found out it was dying of poison and mice don't sing and dance. After I grew up I wondered why no one took me to the dr. for that bite.

Karen

When on a car trip thru the NW Oregon hills with my grandmother and grandfather we passed a herd of sheep grazing on a hillside. My grandfather told me that they were special sheep that were born with 2 legs on one side shorter then the other so they could stand level on the hillside.I believed him for quite sometime. After all your grandfather wouldn't lie , Right.

RG Wright

cuando era pequeña y saliamos por la noche a pasear por el campo yo creia que las estrellas cantaban...hasta que descubri que realmente los que cantaban eran los grillos

Anon

When I was about 5, my favorite uncle (who had 2 horses) told me that he also had a green horse named "Old Green." (One of his other horses was named "Old Red"). At first I did not believe him, but then he explained to me that the reason I never saw Old Green was that he was shy and stayed at the far end of the pasture all the time. He had me totally convinced. Later, I was telling my Dad about Old Green. My Dad told me that Uncle A was just teasing me. And I told him, "Well, maybe Uncle A knows something you don't!"

Nickel

My dad used to tell me that "smoked" bacon came from pigs that had been fed on a diet of kippers !!!

Tony . Newcastle on Tyne

When I was Little I believed that my pets, being smaller than humans, felt pain more. In fact I had a vague concept that pain increased exponentially the smaller a creature was. Therefore if I flicked the cat in the nose it was the equivalent of a grown man being hit in the face with a brick. So I became very gentle with animals.

Stace

I used to believe in unicorns. I thought if I sat really still in the woods with a pure heart, one would come to me and be my best friend ever.

The problem was I also believed if my heart wasn't pure it would kill me with its horn. So I never tried to find one, for fear my heart wouldn't be pure enough.

anon

This all began when I was 13 (embarrassingly old, I know!). On school camps my friends told me to watch out for 'drop bears'. They said they were a kind of small bear that dropped down onto you from overhanging branches. I was sure this was a lie, but nobody would tell me any different, so I assumed 'drop bear' was a euphemism for something disgusting. It was only this year (I am now 25) that I pestered my friends into admitting that 'drop bear' is actually totally meaningless.

Mel (Australia)

When I was little, I asked my dad why buffalo wings were called that, because I didn't know that buffalos in fact did have wings, and not only did they have wings, but they flew over our house at night and made sure we were safe. This whole lie was told to me by my father, and to this day, even though I know buffalos do not fly, I look out my window at night and look for flying buffalos.

Bailey

1-I used to belive that naugahyde (vinyl) came from the hides of cute little tan animals named Naugas and I wanted one as a pet and that they looked like naked cats.
2-I also thought that Mouton (fake fur) was a type of extinct rabbit-llama creature.
3-I thought that a hyena was the result of a dog and cat mating.
4. I also believed that an elephant could suck you up his nose like a vaccum cleaner or blow you across the street if it sneezed
I had a very active imagination as a kid.

Anna

i always used to call ants 'lumps' and that slugs were homeless snails. also one time,me and my mum were walking in the park when a bee flew up her skirt,she yelled 'b*****d' at it so i copied-it was so funny.

becci cooper

when we were young my sister, brother and I were watching a documentary on laughing hienas with my Dad and he convinced us they lived in the woods behind our house. At night to scare us he would say "Can laughing hienas open doors?"

Anon

My dad used to tell me elaborate tales about a pet mouse he'd had as a boy. He made airplanes for it and all kinds of stuff. It would talk to him, etc. In first grade we had a test on "fact or fiction". Something like, "Which is fact, a talking squirrel or Abraham Lincoln was a president?" I totally failed the test and never could comprehend why my dad would lie to me about such an incredible thing.

emily

I used to believe there were calves' heads in those cans of Pet Milk.

Ron

that sheep had legs longer on one side then other thats why they could stand on mountain sides without falling down

bob

When I was 12 I saw the old version of the Dr.Dolittle movie. Because there was a 2 headed llama in it, I thought that all llamas had 2 heads!

Saru