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My Dad convinced me that Manx cats had no tail - and only three legs.

Jim

I used to believe that the little styrofoam beads in bean bags were actually dormant snake eggs that would only come out if you pinched them with your fingernails....

Anon

I used to beleive that all black cows were bulls, so would be terrified of crossing a field that had a black cow in it. I beleived this till i was about 13 then one day actually listened to what i said, could not believe that my dad and big bro had conned me all that time.

kez

I used to believe in 'land sharks.' They were sharks that would sort of swim through dirt. I thought that if I were outside standing on the ground alone they would get me. So, I hardly played outside in fear of those things. And I had nightmares about them a lot.

Christiecat

When my husband was a boy, his uncle told him about cows that were specially bred to live on hillsides. They were called "sidehill gougers" and they had legs that were short on one side, long on the other. Farmers bred them in both left- and right-handed versions, but had to make sure to put them in the correct pasture, because if you got it wrong they'd fall down the side of the hill.

Hubby believed it for years!

Anon

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

I always believed that only black and white cows gave milk..That's what my grandpop always told me..I was probably 30 before I found out different..dumb huh !! LOL

Granygrump

I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.

Phil

I was convinced when I was young that if I held out two fingers and whistled long enough, a bird would come and land on my fingers. That's what Disney teaches young children - just sing like a bird and hold out your hand and they'll come to you!

Horn of the French

When I was in pre-school I was playing "My Little Ponies" with a girl who was about a year younger than me. She wasn't very nice because her mother was one of the pre-school teachers and she felt that made her more important than the rest of us. Anyway, I got stuck playing with her and she made her pony say it was going to eat mine! I got really upset and asked why and her pony said "Because I like meat!!!" I told her that ponies don't have any meat on them because they don't eat meat, only grass. We got into a huge fight over and she ran and asked her mom, who told me the sad truth. I stopped playing with her after that.

My poor little pony!!!

I used to believe that bears and wolves were just made-up animals like dragons and unicorns because I never saw them.

Rosie

When I was little I believed rabbits laid eggs.

Anon

I used to think that the tags on cows ears were actually earings.

Kelly

i ueded to believe that animals could talk. So eveytime i would say something bad to my dog i would be terrified that he would say something back.

Solim Cervantes

I used to believe cats ate dogs and mice ate elephants

lucien

I thought that eating dogfood would turn you into a dog so I went outside with a doggy treat and ate it.It was kinda good xD

alexa_ren

I used to believe that brown cows were actually normal cows that had been sitting in the sun for a long time and got a tan

Anon

When I was 2, my family went to Galveston for vacation. I had just seen the movie "Jaws" and was terrified of sharks. While sitting on my dad's lap on a tube in the ocean, I asked him where the sharks were. He told me that they hold them back with a net. I completely freaked out, because all I could imagine was Jaws tearing through the net to get to me. To this day, I have an unnatural fear of sharks...

Shelli

My friend once told me the reason sheep could stand on a hills so easily was because they had differnet length legs. Seeing lots of sheep on hills i thought this was a reasonable idea and i actually believed it. The worst thing is that i was 15 when at the time!

J

When I was little my mom told me that I had to keep my room clean all the time or else the mice would make nests in my mess and have babies. Then she told me that in the middle of the night when I was sleeping, the mice would run over my face and it would feel like the waves crashing on the beach. To this day, I hate mice and I have very clean house.

Valerie