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After I saw Jaws, I thought that sharks could be in any place that had water. Bath tubs, swimming pools, lakes, toilets, etc...

Troy

my mom and dad thought it would be funny to tell me (the 1 and a half year old) that cows were horses and horses were cows, so for a year they made me think that that was true and i guess my gram yelled at them and told them they should be teaching me the truth

brittany

from watching something on the tele when i was about 7 about snakes coming out of the toilet. I always have to look in the toilet while i'm having a wee incase they come and bite my bum.

snake bite

I used to believe that older men were bald because squirrels stole their hair... that's also why squirrels had such bushy tails.

Anon

As a very young girl, I believed that our neighbors sheep wore heavy quilts in the winter. I'm nearly 40 and my family won't let me forget it!

Sandra, California

I got a book from the library on spiders, and read about the black widow. It said that it's webs could be found behind couches and chairs. If any of my toys fell behind the couch, I wouldn't get them for fear of the black widow. My mom retrieved a whole pile of them one day. Little did I know that black widows did not live in the part of country were I am.

brian

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 I was about 10 years old, my grown-up cousin took a couple of us kids for a walk up a mountain in Scotland. I think we must've been dragging behind because my cousin suddenly shouted "come on you two, there two bl**dy great snails just gone racing past". If he thought this would speed us up he was totally wrong - we spent the next hour convinced that we could find these two big snails that had raced past us!

Petra-Marie

I used to think that fireflies only came out for the 4th of July. :-)

Whitney

I used to believe that welsh rabbits were made of cheese (welsh rarebit)

Glenn

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

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

after eating a plate of Calamari, My big brother told me that they were going to grow in my stomach and I cried and ran to bathroom and spent a few days attempting to look down my throat to see the growing octopi.

bouncinshoes

When I was four and I was at primary school, we used to play out on the fields where some rabbits lived. Because I ws only 4. I didn't know a lot about the world (!!), and one dinnertime I found all these little 'stones' on the grass. So I picked up as many as I could find, and went and showed the dinner lady my 'special stones'. Only to discover, to my emvbarrasment, that these 'stones' were in fact rabbit droppings!

Nichola

When I was young I used to read books about shark attacks (some fictional some not). One day I read a story about a shark that swam up river into fresh water and attacked people. This story led me to believe that there were lake sharks and I would never swim in lakes because of it. (It didn't help me any that my best friend at the time found out and would try to scare me).

jjj

when i was little we went to scotland on holiday, my parents told me that haggis' were little furry creatures who lived in the highlands, they had two short legs on one side and two long legs on the other for running around the hills, trouble was they could only run in one direction, if they turned around they'd roll off!!!

Linz

i used to believe that tigers got there stipes from going to wars and stripes were there battle scars.......silly me!

i thought that for all animals with stripes......haha

Jordan

My sister told me i was raised by squrrels. She said that my parents took me in because i was getting to big for my squrrel mom to carry and that i wouldnt fit in their nest. SHe called me squrrel girl for the next year. I beleived her and asked her why my parents had pictures of me on the day i was born and she said that my real parents sent them to my om nd dad. I beleived her until i realized my family was in some of the pictures.

Anon

My mom used to tell me that animals with red eyes were sick....rabbits, hamsters, ect....

Umm...

When we lived in South Dakota, my dad went hunting with his best friend all the time. Up until I was 17 yrs old even, even though I'd heard the legentds and stories, my dad and his friend had me completely convinced that Jack-a-Lopes were real. They said they'd seen them plenty of times...

Anon