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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

I have a phobia of butterflies to this day (I'm almost thirty) because my mom once said that they had a fine powder on their wings that would turn you blind.

Cam Seslaf

I used to believe that gophers were the Devils helpers. We had alot of gophers in the backyard and I thought the Devil lived there. Strange...Devil, liveD.

Ted

I thought jelly fish were made out of fruit jelly.

Kevin

Remember the recent outbreak of foot and mouth desiese in the UK, well I thought it was foot IN mouth and all the animals walked round eating thier feet, and I was 16.

Anon

My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.

Jenni

my brother believed that animals used their own names as the sounds they made. a cow, for example would'nt moo.. he would say cow.

debbie

When I was a small child, I would name farm animals while on road trips. My mother had convinced me that a horse was a cow and vice-versa. She thought it would be funny. Eventually, I found out the truth but still to this day if you were to show me a flashcard of a cow, I would more than likely say horse without thinking of it.

Anon

As a kid growing up my grandfather used to always tell us that the reason for the winding trails going up the slopes of nearby hills (from cattle grazing) was because of these extremely rare animals called Gyrasticuttus's (I can't spell it). Supposedly this animal was born with the legs on one side of its body shorter than the other... which was handy for eating grass as it wound up the hill. Unfortunately once at the top it couldn't get down because of the leg imbalance so it had to tumble end over end in order to get down. I believed him whole-heartedly for years and my sister and I (who usually fought like dogs) would spend entire car rides in silence trying to catch a glimps of the rare beast out our window... which as it turned out, worked very well for my grandparents.

Ez

When I was a kid I had never seen any exotic animals until I went to the zoo, then I could see all the animals I saw in cartoons. When I saw the zebra I got very excited and said, "Wow a Zebra! A Zebra!" about 100 times. My big brother said, "That's not a zebra, that's a horse in striped pajamas." Dejected, I sat down and said, "Oh. I thought it was a zebra." My brother got yelled at by Mom for that one, and for many years I was never was sure when a zabra was really a zebra.

Anon

My friend was told when she was a child (and still believes this) that butterflies are called 'butterflies' because they were originally called 'flutterbies' (because, of course, they flutter by) and that people got confused somewhere along the way.

Anon

When I was little, my dad told me that there were alligators in the septic tank and they were the ones who made all the noise. The septic tank was in the basement with the nintendo set (1985) so once I was done playing, I would race through the basement turning off all the lights as fast as I could so that the alligators wouldn't get out of the tank and eat me.

Lindsay

My mother once told me that a long time ago, unicorns existed. They were simply extinct because poachers killed them for their horns. I believed this until around 5th grade.

Phantom Callie

I used to believe that if you held a Guinea pig upside down, it's eyes would fall out.

james

After reading "The Frog Prince," I tried to treat all frogs with respect, should one of them become a prince again and punish me for mistreating him as a frog.

Sarah

For some reason I learned that the big gray animal in Africa was a rhinonceros (note the extra n) not a rhinoceros, which is fact the correct spelling and pronounciation. Not only did I pronounce it with the extra "N" but I was corrected at age 14 by my little sister, and even now, at age 16 I can't break the habit!

animalfail

I used to believe that weasels routinely nested in the glove compartments of cars.

Ven

Until I was 24 years old, I believed the missing "link" in the chain of evolution was the name of an animal they were looking for, as in they were looking for the animal "Lynk".

dipshit

When I children, I used to believe that the frog grew then was forming until that tunerd in a lizard

Luis

i believed that sheep who live on the side of reservoirs had two legs shorter than the other and that they had to walk around the reservoir in the same direction otherwise they’d fall over.

Kate