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I believed dinosaurs made the mountains whenever they walked the earth.

Tammy

When i was about 5 years old my mom told me opossums were the little faces in trees, but i thought she meant how the leaves kinda look like faces altogether.I was looking at the tree all night and crying.

Logan

I used to believe that fossils were really magic, when animals were running in the cave, they suddenly turned into stone.

Diana

I'm from Wisconsin and knew quite young that milk came from cows--from those things on the bottom of their tummies. Somehow I assumed that our water came from horses! Perhaps I'd seen one "making water" in a field and then drew that conclusion?

Eve Robillard

Whenever we were driving and saw a dead animal, I always thought it was sleeping. I would ask my dad, "Why is the deer (or raccoon, squirrel, etc.) sleeping there, Daddy?" and he would say, "I don't know but that's not a very good place for it to sleep, it'll get run over." It never occurred to me until later in life that animals don't just sleep in the middle of the road..

Alexandra

I once believed the Goat Skull in the backyard would snap at and bite me if I went too close (thanks to my older siblings) and to this day I still feel that gut-wrenching fear when I walk past any animal skeleton.

Victoria

To instill respect for animals my mother told me that they all spoke to each other in ways I couldn't understand. I always thought she ment telepathically, and until my teens I wondered when humans would be able to join in this telepathic communication. I still talk to my dogs as if they understand completely.

Anon

I used to believe Dragons were real like Dinosaurs. I found out the other day they weren't.. Haha.

Anon

I used to believe that cows made cobwebs. See, we had cobwebs in the barn and spider webs in the house. I knew spiders made spiderwebs, so cows must make cobwebs - maybe I misheard the word?

Donna

I asked my older brother how cows were able to stand on a hillside without toppling over and they told me that the legs on one side of the cow were shorter than the other side. I believed him till I was 14 and saw a cow up close...

Megan

I used to believe that all swimming pools had trap doors to release sharks, like that Bond film. I persuaded myself that I was a prototype human, made by aliens/gods (presumably depending on how many additives I'd ingested). They had made me to check if humans were good or not before making any more. Everyone else on earth was a robot.
The aliens/gods had realised that we were no good from my example and the shark pool was their way of taking out the trash.

jamesgrape

My mom thought dinosaurs were only make-believe and never existed because of the cartoon Land of the Lost. It was like girls and unicorns and boys and dinosaurs.

Molly

I used to think that chocolate milk came from brown cows.

Nikki

I think they're should be a section called "Cows and bulls are 2 different species" because I used to believe cows are often male, and that bulls are a different animal.

Trisha Gaurav

When I was a little kid i thought cattle meant a group of cats

It's a group of cows and bulls!

That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see

Katie

My mother caught me eating biscuits in bed. "Look at the crumbs, you'll have mice". To a four year old this sounded like an exciting opportunity, so each night I would put crumbs under the bed in the hope, not that they would attract mice, but they would turn into mice! After about 3 months and a tell tale mound of crumbs the awful truth was finally broken to me.

Alan Schofield

I used to believe that cows in wales had longer back legs than front so they could stand on the hills... my farther told me this which for some reason i believed until i was 16 years old.... very odd i know.

Alex Boyce

I used to believe that the cows in Switzerland, the ones who could be found grazing in the Alps, had a set of legs that were shorter than the other, so that they could stay balanced on the hills. It is my parents that told me this, and I believed it well into my late teens.

Christopher Lamothe

I used to believe that goats were male sheep. This persisted until I was at university and my boyfriend took me to a city farm so I could see goats and sheep - and male sheep - together.

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