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i live in the desert, and a lot of the mountains here have large caves. when i was a kid my dad used to tell me that wombats lived in the caves. i didnt even know what a wombat was. i figured they were ferrocious animals that could eat a little kid. it wasnt until i was watching the discovery channel when i was a teenager that i learned what a real wombat was. and i do not beleive that they are indigenous to the nevada desert.

nikksta

This isn't mine, but my friends instead. When she was little and travelling in the car with her parents in the country she spotted some cows. She got excited and pointed and said "Daddy! Lookie, cows!" and her dad replied, "No sweetie, those are chickens." And for a while she thought that cows were chicken and always called them that. XD

Sarah

when i was little i thought everyone was a animal and only i could see their real form so i would always refer to a person as the goat man or something on the lines of that.

Jodi

I managed to convince my cousin visiting from America that in Australia we call 'Koala Bears' 'Drop Bears'! We told her that if you walked under a gum tree it would drop down and try to bite your neck! She was so convinced that she would run screaming when ever she walked under a tree!

Sean

When I was about 5 years old I went to the beach with my parents. The 1st day there,I loved it but the second day we went to this museum about sea animals. There was this program about whales washing into the harbor. When we went to the beach I was convinced that the waves were whales and I was trying to save them and every time I tried I was amazed that they dissapeared and turned into water. (I thought they had died and dissintigrated already.)

Save the Whales

When I was a child, my uncle (who is 6 years older than me) told me that his hamsters and fish were really baby lions and pirahna's, so I was petrified to feed them cause they would eat off my arm. It wasn't until my Mom realized that I was afraid to go to the pet aisle with her to buy his pets food that I was told the truth.

ReneeP

once, my dad took me on a boat ride. there i was leaning over the edge, trailing my hand in the water, then my dad told me to be careful. the 'logfish' would bite my hand if i put it in the water. for the rest of the day we were logfish spotting. years later when we were out on a bout my dad told me the truth. (i fell for it!!)

charlie

Yesterday my wife told me that she wanted to see an elephant up close at the circus that was in town, because she wanted to see it pee......I said what would you want to see an elephant's wang? She said that she didn't want to see a male, that she wanted to see the female's hose like urinating device......I told her that female elephants don't have umm...wangs. She said 'well horses do, so why wouldn't they!' Evidently her brother convinced her when she was a child that interesting 'fact'.
She is 27.

Life is Funny.

When I was quite young, my sister told me there were alligators in the river near our home. I believed this until, at age 24, I was directing a youth canoe outing on that very river and told them not to get in the water because the alligators would eat them. One bright young fellow informed me that it was way too cold where we were for alligators to thrive in the rivers!

Anon

I used to believe that ponies were baby horses. And by "used to" I mean "until yesterday." I am 29. I am also an idiot.

Chris

I used to believe wolverines made good housepets -- I was wrong.

I told you so

When I was little, people told me to watch out for the undertow when I was on the beach. I thought they said 'undertoad' so whenever I went to the beach I always got scared and thought that a giant toad lived in the ocean and would suck me underwater.

Anon

I thought that if I left plastic Easter eggs out overnight, God would make them hatch into plastic dinosaurs. My parents may have encouraged this belief for a few weeks...

Anon

I used to believe that the cows owned by my grandfather slept lying on the ground like a human at night.

Eric

When I was a child I used to believe that there were dinosaurs living in the mountains near where I live.

Teacher LM

When I was 5 my family bought a rabbit off one of my Dad's drinking mates. He said his own pet had had babies and it's name was peter. For the next 5 years he hopped along happily eating hay and dropping little brown balls on our balcony. It was only when he died we found out from the vet that he was a she. My Dad's friend had stolen "him" from a field.

The first and last transvestite rabbit?

Pierce

I thought that the goats that live on the Great Orme in North Wales had shorter legs on one side, and that if they tried to turn round they'd fall down the slope. I also thought that they got married in opposite-handed pairs!!

Leo

Until I was 10, I used to believe that rats has poisonous tails. Somebody told this when I was much younger and I unquestioningly believed it. Eventually, I passed this information on to my friend Roger's younger brother when we were in the nearby ravine. Afterwards, Roger set me right and chewed me out for making it up to scare his brother. I realized how ridiculous it was and was very embarrassed.

Chris

That reindeer could leap so high and far it was as if they were flying. Their zoo enclosures always had nets over the tops so I believed this until my husband told me different-always wondered why people didn't tame and ride them-what fun!

me & Santa

I used to believe, as a child, that horses were male cows.

Martin Taylor