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When I was 4 or 5 years old, my cousin told me that if a squirrel was had black fur, then it meant that the squirrel had rabbies! I believed her, and whenever I saw a black squirrel, i would run away from it.

Liz

When I was about 5 or 6, every time I saw a lizard, I asked my grandma what it was doing and she says that it's looking for food, but I said, where's it's refriderator?

Leyslie

i used 2 believe that humans and animals could mate. I have no idea why but y'know... Also i thought that if a dog mated with a sheep it made a cow...

am i that weird

o dear o dear i am strange indeed

The first time I got a new fish from the pet store, I thought it was a snow globe. On the ay back home, I was sitting in the backseat of the car when my mother had noticed that I was shaking the inflated bag ferociously (fish inside of it and all)! Needless to say, i was never allowed to hold the fish baggies ever again. To this day, I still can't. It positively gives me the willies. I'm 21 now, go figure.

Rebecca, US

When I was younger i used to believe that there were dolphins behind the sound barriers on the freeway going into Memphis.

Jessica

When i was little, we had skunks on our patio, and it began to smell in our nice basement. so i overheard mom and dad talking, and they said something about the skunks getting into the basement. so i was scared the skunks would come up and kill me when i was sleeping at night.

Rachel Age 12

When I was seven, my older brother lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We went to visit him, it was the first time I had been to New Mexico. I saw a post card with a Jack-a-lope (a Jack Rabbit with antlers on it), for the longest time I thought they were real!

jami lane

My Granny said if I got out of the pickup when Brama bulls were nearby, they would get in my pants. Realize I was only 5 years old. I did not get out of the pickup.

Anon

up until the age of 15 i used to belive that there were male cows i didnt realise that cows were female n bulls were males.

anon

I used to believe that crickets chirping were actually some coach just blasting his whistle over and over and over.

Tweedle Dum

when I was about 5 or 6 I thought my dog was a lion so every time it came up to me i ran down the driveway

madison

When I was little, I thought chipmunks were baby squirrels, and changed colors and grew longer tails as they grew older.

Anon

When I was younger, I had a fascination with all things farm, particularly chickens. I pestered a family member for one of her chickens, but she wouldn't give me a live one (much to Mom and Dad's relief). Instead, she gave me an egg and told me that if I took really good care of it, it would hatch. Well, I set it up on my bedside table, in a nice padded box and waited. Even after a few weeks had passed, I was still waiting for *MY* chicken to appear. The egg disappeared a few days later (My mom said she threw it out eventually.) If only I had known about the heat needed aspect of hatching eggs!!! I had really wanted a pet chicken. At least the egg never broke!

Silly bird

quand j' étais petite, je croyait que les animaux pouvait me parler rien qu'a moi et j'était heureuse mais par contre tout le monde ce moquait de moi .

armine

When I was young, my parents convinced me that sheep which lived on hills were born with their back two legs longer than the front two so they didn't fall down. The walked down the hill backwards so as not to fall down.

Robert F. Brooks

my mam used to buy them big chickens in bags, i always thought the bags of sand builders put over road work signs were chickens in bags from asda...

claire

This isn't actually my belief, but my brother in law's. We were watching something on the Discovery channel one night, and apparently it had something to do with sloths. So of course they had footage of the sloth eating and swimming and hanging on a tree branch. Well, my brother in law came down stairs and was like "What kind of animal is that?"
"A sloth," I replied.

"No way," he responded, "Nu uh! Are you serious?"

"Yes, and they're so slow that they have slime growing on their fur."

"Wow. I thought sloth was just something they made up in the Bible when they were talking about lazy people."

(Note: he's like 15 years older than me...)

Erin

when i was 5 i wished to have a penguin and i used to believe my mum would buy me a penguin(real one) and keep it in the refrigerator until i open it and be suprized

baran

When i was little I had my own theory on how the dinosaurs died out. I figured that the dinosaurs were so big that the herbivores ate all the plants and died out since there was no food for them. Then all the carnivorous dinosaurs died out since they couldn't eat any of the herbivores.

dumbKid

I used to believe that squirrels didn't used to bite

samah