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I once believed that fossils were everywhere. After reading about fossils at school, I went home, found a hammer, and started breaking every piece of rock and chipped cement, looking for a dinosaur bone

Glenn

I used to believe that male hamsters just had very big bottoms.

Karen

I once knew a guy who was absolutely convinced that if you tickled a trout on its belly, it will fall asleep and willingly fall into your net. I think he still believes it!!

4-Strings

I believed that cows always laid down when it was going to rain, thereby reserving a nice dry spot to lie on. I therefore thought I could predict rain before anyone else.

Betty-Ann

Whne I was a little girl, my dad told me that sheep were born with 2 legs shorter on one side of their bodies to enable them to graze on the sides of hills - and I believed him!!!!

Anon

I only found out last year that a pony is not a baby horse.

Mescaline Frumblethond

I thought that the reason there weren't any unicorns was because they had all been driven into the sea (due to Noah forgetting them or an evil wizard, I never could decide which) and had become Narwhals, which are a type of whale with a sharp unicorn like horn on top of their head that I found in my National Geographic book of animals.
It was a strange fusion of ideas, but hey, the europeans were fooled by narwhal horns for years and counted them among religious artifacts.

Rebecca

I had a picture book about squirrels. One picture showed a squirrel facing the reader, with its tail held up behind. From that picture, I believed that there was a kind of squirrel whose tail grew out of the back of its head.

Jerry

I told my brother and sister that there was a skunk under our deck...I told them so much that I started to believe it too and was scared of it!

beckie

I spent a year teaching foreign 14-year-old children from developing countries in Spain, and I had many stories about that.
The one I prefer deals with fabulous creatures. I was asking children to make a list of fantastic animals. Then, a couple of girls from Dominican Republic asked me to add dinosaurs to that list. "But there were dinosaurs, once upon a time", I argued. "No, they weren't, they are in pictures only". "So, you think they are fabulous, as mermaids are?" Then, a girl from Equatorial Guinea cut in: "excuse me, teacher, but mermaids are not fabulous. I've seen them many times swimming in the rivers."

josemoya

I used to believe that brown cows were the ones that gave chocolate milk, and that cows that lived on mountains had 2 legs shorter than the other 2 so they wouldn't fall over on the mountainside. This was all due to overhearing my parents reminiscing about when my grandfather (Dad's side) and the things he told my aunt, who also believed them. I didn't figure out why they were laughing until I was older.

Debi

I used to have a hamster, and my mom and I would put cotton wool in its cage as bedding.
One day my mom told me to clean the cage, change the cotton wool etc...
I couldn't find any cotton wool but I DID however find tampons in the bathroom. Being a seven yearold, I pulled about 10 tampons apart and filled my hamsters cage with them.


My mom wasn't happy

Sarah

When i was little, i was DEATHLY afraid of "draffies" (giraffes) , "boc-bocs" (chickens), and monkey woods (any forest...i always thought monkeys lived only in the woods) even though monkeys and giraffes were my favorite animals.

I slept with my mom untill i was at least 8 and one night when i was about 6 (i live by a highway so u can hear cars driving by 24/7 and my moms room is right by the driveway so u can hear if someone drives up) i must've heard somone drive up but i whispered "MOM!!!! MOM!! THERES DRAFFIES IN THE DRIVEWAY!" She tells and retells that story every Christmas.

For a family vaction one time we went to dig for diamonds and you had to walk through a path in the forest to get to the digging place. Well, i freaked out becuz "we were walking through monkey woods"!

One time during the summer we went to visit my aunt Susan in Tucson. I was about 3 at the time. My mom and i were walking past the stairs and i saw a shadow and started screm-crying saying "A BOC-BOC! A BOC-BOC!" dont ask me why i was afraid of a chicken but hey i was 3!

muah!,13

i used to believe that there was a creature called a feather legged tree rabbit! We used to live opposite a wood and my father used to call out "Quick, look, can u see it? - oh, u just missed it. i imagined it to be like a squirrel but with huge ears and feathers down its legs.

helen

I was told that the reason why some cows could walk on hillsides was because the legs on one side of their body were shorter than the other...the person told me notice how they always walk in one direction. Since I only really ever saw cows from a passing car, it made sense to my child logic!

Steve S

I used to believe that animals outside had nowhere to go to the bathroom. I saw a squirrel one day and emptied out a box and followed him with it. Once the squirrel figured out that the box did not contain any food, it bit me.

Anon

My sister told me that if I was bad, I would be sent to the Okefenokee in a package where I would be promptly eaten by aligators, and I beleived it could be done.

Mana Doll

I live on a farm and when i was about three i used to help my dad shear the sheep we had on the farm..well i believed i was helping and then afterwards when we were having dinner a neighbour of mine asked why only my dad could shear the sheep....to which i replied "beacause he knows where the buttons on their coats are!"

Áine

When I was younger I used to believe that the electrical box on some of the streetlights beside the roads were where they hid the birds and squirrels that were run over. I was six at the time.

Anon

I used to believe a gnat was an animal similar to a goat, probably because of the similarity in their names when written out.

gnat