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My friend and I were cleaning her goldfish tank in the bathroom when one of the fish jumped out of the tank, landing in the sink, and slid down the drain (really, it happened. I think it was suicide). Anyway, we begged her mom to take us to the beach because we thought that's where all the sink water came out and we wanted to save her lost fish.

Anon

I thought swans were mystical creatures. I thought that they were like unicorns. I had never seen one until a couple of years ago, when I was 12. God, was I stupid

Meg

I used to think that Shamu was my whale and that he just lived at Sea World and they took care of him for me.

Anon

I used to think white cows were full of milk, black cows were empty, and black and white ones were half full.

James

When I was in the 2nd grade, I became really obsessed with dinosaurs and thought that scientists were going to bring them back from the dead. For one reason or another I truly believed that a T-Rex would be assigned to our neighborhood and get all the people by reaching in through the windows and grabbing them as they walked by. I avoided windows till 5th grade.

Cat

Obviously, there's a strong association between bunnies and eggs. Why? Not just the fact that they're both metaphors for fertility and new life, but because of Easter. So, for some strange reason, even though I knew rabbits were mammals, I thought rabbits laid eggs.

Anon

My older sister told me that hamsters could fly. I remember looking at my hamster when i was about 6 and seeing his small legs and wondering how he could fly with legs that small-and eventually convinced myself that they would become flat and thin when he began to fly. I found out that they couldn't fly when my hamster (who was old and blind by that point) walked off the edge of the table.

German Girl

I used to believe that crocodiles were green because they were uncooked

The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster

When I was young I was always told not to sit on the ground or else you would get worms. I remember sitting on the ground one day playing and spending the REST OF THE NIGHT watching to see if worms crawled out my behind.

Laura U.

I used to think the smoke detector went off when there weren't enough "smoke-peckers" around. They were little mosquito-like bugs who lived in every house and pecked away all the smoke before the "beeper" could go off. I was friends with the one at my house. He had a baby sister and he didn't like getting wet in the bath.

Anon

I used to think that you could become crabby after you got pinched by a crab. I was afraid to go to the beach because I didn't want to become crabby.

Anon

When I was a lttle girl, I used to believe there was a shark in the swimming pool. One day my parents fortunately told me that sharks lived in the sea!

Anon

When I was a child, I believed that Stuart Little was real and I always wanted to have one.

Anon

I used to believe that you could stretch a rat's body to be super long.

Anon

I grew up believing meerkats have human hands because I learned about meerkats from The Lion King.

Anon

I used to have a cat, but we couldn't keep it in our apartment. I come home one day to see ants in the bathroom, but no cat anywhere. My parents had told me that the ants ate the cat; bones and all. That was when I was 8; I believed it until I was 13.

Diana

My grandma used to say that there were snakes that could come up from the ground at night that were huge and the color of dirt in order to keep me from going out side at night

lassie Pumba

i grew up on a farm, and often we would round up the cows and take them to a different pasture. i was told that if i am walking behind a cow and it goes number 2, that if it got on me they turned to freckles. needless to say i have freckles but i was never splattered on thank goodness

Bernice

I live in the country, where we have grey and brown squirrles. When I went to my cousin's house in the city there were only black squirrles. Naturally, I felt sorry for them because they were so dirty from pollution. I always wanted to somehow give them a bath.

Patty, NY

When I was a little girl, 3-4 yrs or so, my parents told me that the black cows and sheep had been in the fireplace, and that they were dirty.. Naturally, I believed they would be clean after the next rain fell..

Anne