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I went to visit my relatives in NY and my cousin played a trick on my brother and I. One evening he said, lets go snip hunting. He explained that snipes were little bird like creatures that live in the ground and get there buy digging little holes resembling snake holes. He said there's two holes for each snipe. He told us to cover up one hole of the pair and bang on the ground and scream and yell and the snipe would come shooting out the other hole and you catch it with a net. He told my brother to go inside and get a flashlight. Then I went with him to the backyard and he started digging little holes in the ground. I went along with it to fool my brother, and when he caught no snipes he suspected that he was being fooled. My cousin told him that snipes were real and to look it up on the internet. My brother soon found a site explaining the practical joke. It was so funny, I reccomend it if you want to see someone screaming and beating the ground.

Snipe hunter

i used 2 belive that donkeys wer baby horses until i saw a foal so i decided they were really old ones that had shrunk insted

Anon

I used to belive that all animals could talk but just didn't want to aroung people!

Mallory

When I was about 3 years old, my dad would take me out on the boat to fish with him. To stave my boredom, I would bring a tape player and play "sing-along" cassets.

He had a few other friends with him this particular time, and one of them had caught a big catfish. I was so focused on the fish's mouth gaping open and shut that I actually thought the fish was singing "And the little one said, 'roll over.'" Then they dropped the fish back into the water.

(Much MUCH later, I found out it was actually my Dad doing the singing.)

Sony full of Bologna

To this day my friend (he's 17) swears that chipmunks are baby squirrels.

Liz

I thought all animals lived like people do. They had little houses with TVs and kitchens and beds. I remember finding fleas on my cats and killing the fleas that were obviously on their way home and thinking a search party would be sent out to find the missing flea. I couldn't ever find any of the little houses they lived in though...

shannon

When I was little i always saw those deer crossing's so i would always wonder how did the deer know how to cross their

weston

When I was 12 my older brother had me convinced that the cows we used to see on steep hills were breed so the two legs on the up-hill side were shorter than the others so they could stand up straight. I used to wonder if they just walked round and round the hill to find new grass or just backed up.

Sam

I used to believe that the dancing rats from the nutcracker lived under my dresser.

Molly

That Rabbit shed their tail when the seasons changed.

Jodi

When I was three I used to believe that cow and horse are wife and husband.

xenia

When i was a kid i thought cows made milk because they chewed thier cud.. Mom had to explain about babies then...

KathleenA

I remember being frightened out of my wits while watching Tarzan on TV. The idea of being eatn by a vicious lion horrified me. I asked my Father if a lion would really eat a person and he laughed and told me not to worry becuse they run right past the kids and only eat the grown-ups. I believed it!!!

Cathy

I used to think llama's had 2 heads. One facing forwards and one backwards. I have no idea why I thought this.

spiderweb

I used to believe wasps made jam, like bees make honey. This was partly due to a book called "the giant jam sandwich" in which a town is plagued by wasps and traps them in the sandwich.

Anon

I used to belief that farmers had to kill the cow to get the milk.

Juan

When I was about 7 my dad, older brothers and I were walking around my grandparents farm. My dad told us to look around to see if we saw signs of deer. He was observing footprints and other obvious signs. "Yea! I see them," I exclaimed. "Deer eggs!" I was looking at all the hedge apples that had fallen on the ground. Dad still thinks it's funny.

JEH

I used to believe that that the clams I found on the beach each had a little goldfish living inside. I think it was because my mum told me they were called "Shellfish". Fish in a shell - obviously!

Mermaid

When I was about 6 years old. our entire family went on a vacation to Florida. We stayed in this condo that had a giant waterbed in the master bedroom. It also had an aquarium with all sorts of expensive tropical fish.
I thought that all the fish were sad because they had to live in a tiny aquarium, and that they would be much happier in a larger space. I didn't want to put them in the ocean, for fear of them getting eaten by sharks.
It was only 2 weeks after we had left that the manager had been sent up to investigate an ungodly stench in the master bedroom. Seems I had thought that the fishes would have been happier swimming free inside the waterbed!

Lara

when i was about 6 or so my brother and his friend had told me that hammerhead sharks actually had a hammer for a head. so i used to believe that the hammerhead shakr would hit you with its head. I believed this until i went to the aquarium and found out they just had flat heads.

Kevin