general

My father told me that if Guinea Pigs were held up by their tails their eyes would drop out. It was years before I realised they didnt have tails

essie

this 1 is for my daddy, we went on holiday to sea world and my dad was constantly going on about going to see the "wallyruses" it was only till he pointed to one that we worked out he was trying to say: walrus (he was 46 at the time)

Anon

When I was very young I honestly believed that lions came from flower buds, and If I was able to open one and find a lion, I would get a wish. However many flower buds I found, the meticulous peeling away of the layers was always in vain. I have no idea where the idea came from.

Jared

My dad used to tell us all kinds of silly little fibs, which my sisters and I believed for a very long time. Here is one of my favourites.
He told us that female elephants were called Elephants and males were called Ollyphants.

Skye

I used to believe that buckeyes (from the tree) were baby porcupines...

Minerva

when i was little i saw on the tv a turtle laying tiny eggs and to me these eggs looked like grapes, so i always thought grapes came from turtles. i was only corrected when one day i (feeling quite clever) told my mum that grapes came from turtles, "i saw it on the tv!"

oops.

Anon

I had heard of (and even eaten a few times) calamari as a kid. Later when I heard of the Kalahari desert, the words "calamari" and "Kalahari" ran together for me until I heard of calamari again as a grown-up. It was only then that I realized that calamari was squid, and not some cretaure from the Kalahari Desert.

Pam

An old man in our neighborhood wanted to keep the kids out of his shed. He told us there was a porcupine in the shed that would shoot quills at us if we entered the shed. About 10 years after it dawned on me....there was no porcupine.

Rooster

My cousin and I used to believe if we pulled up enough moss and arranged it in a bed that panda bears would come and sleep on them at night. Unfortunately we didn't have any moss in our yard so we walked over to our neighbors yard. There is now a privacy fence. And i just now realized panda bears don't sleep on moss.

Hayley

when i was little i was afraid of the movie theaters because i though pigs would fly out of the walls and kill me

cameron

When I was young I believed rabbit holes were complete with fireplaces and carpeting or hard-wood floors and a little quilt on a little bed. I used to imagine that when people weren't around, rabblit's put on tweed sweaters and suspenders like in Beatrix Potter's illustrations.

Kelsey

I used to believe that bears lived like humans do, because I used to think that their caves were filled with furniture.

Sam

I believed catbunnies did exist just like we have mules etc until I was like 14

Anon

My brother & I visited the zoo with some friends when we were about 7 and 9. One of our friends was a little boy with a very loud shrill voice. While I'm looking at an exhibit I hear him shouting over and over.
"Come look! This rhinoceros has FIVE legs! Look! It's got five legs!"
Of course I had to see this for myself. I got over there and sure enough it had five legs! I yelled
"Hey! It Does have........."
and then it dawned on me.
"No it doesn't."
I swear it looked like another leg though.

Teresa

I used to wonder why Great White sharks were called that as what was so great about them if they eat people (this was before I knew great could also just mean big.

Ted Snow

i used to believe that 'bobs your uncle' actually meant that bob is my uncle so when my sister said to me ba bla bla bobs your ucle i thought that my mates sister was my uncle (because her nickname's bob) LOL

anyamizer

My Sister Cindy Once Believed That If She Kissed A Frog She Would Turn Into A Frog Too!
I Told Her That Will Never Work

Lisa

I once thought you could get cancer from moles, as in the rodent. I later found out it meant skin moles, not rodent moles

Anon

When I was a kid my parents told me the animals laying on the side of the road were just taking a nap since the road was warm

Nadine

When was young , I used to believe that in the Paris sewer, there were crocodiles and that they could go up through the toilets and bite us

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