general

When I was nine, my brothers friends convinced me that a haggis was a four legged animal. I started to smell a rat when they tried to convince me that its front legs were shorter than its back legs, so it could stand up straight on a hill.

benedict

when i was little i used to believe that could talk to squirrels. i had a squirrel who was my best friend and i named her buttercup. so everytime we were in the car and i saw a squirrel running across someone's yard, i would scream "hey there's buttercup!" yeah... im pretty sure i saw about a hundred squirrels named buttercup.

tori

When we drove by my sister used to comment about all the mushrooms in the fields. Of course, they were actually sheep!

Simon

Because I knew clothes made of wool sometimes shrank in the wash, I used to assume that sheep shrank when it rained.

Marie

if you took an animal away from its mother at birth and let it live with you alone, then it would learn to speak your language instead of barking or meowing or something. i figured that no one ever did it because it would be sad for the mother...

dumbass

I used to believe that when toads got old they would turn into toadstools. Thanks a bunch to the show Toad Troop or something like that...

Evan

My wife and her sister used to believe that unicorns were real but that seahorses, for some reason, were not. To this day, they still have to think carefully when faced with unicorn/seahorse matters to remember which one does and does not exist.

latsot

When I was a kid, I didn't know that sheep would have their wool shaved off. I thought a sheep with wool was one kind of animal and a sheep without wool was a totally different animal.

Heather

I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.

Tara

i used to believe that animals talk but theyre too shy to talk infront of people so they make unusual sounds (meow, rawr, oink) to communicate in code language or something xD

Anon

When i was a little kid, i vaguely remember seeing camels walking around a big open space. It must have been at a zoo, but i was too young to remember that part and believed for a really long time that I'd seen the camels near my childhood home, in "the wild". I remember being really shocked and confused when i learned that camels were "desert animals" and not actually native to northern Indiana.

Hoosier Camels

My mother once said that if I watch an animal poop, I would go blind. I was definitely old enough to know this was a lie at the time but I certainly have never risked it.

Anon

I used to believe that humans were a subspecies of sheep.

Anon

I thought that some animals had just been "invented" recently (like within the last 50 years or so)

Makron

I used to believe that horses were born as foals (babies), then turned into ponys (kids) and then a horse (grown ups).

Chrissie

When I was a youngster, my grandfather told me that if a snapping turtle bites someone it would hold on and not let go until it thundered. I was an outdoors kid so I was always super careful when I saw and wanted to catch a snapper.

Jt

I thought Spongebob's parents were cookies (they looked a lot like it) and I wondered why two cookies could have a kid that was a Sponge.

Goldie

I used to think that adult kangaroos were called Kangas and that child kangaroos were called Roos.

Anon

My older brother once told me that Aussie shampoo was made from kangaroo pee. I avoided using it for years!

Annie

My wife and I have convinced both our children that the bales of hay you see no-a-days wrapped in polythene are actually cow eggs.

Paul