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i used to belief that pigs and sheep hid in my wardrobe at night to scare me

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A zoo that I often visited as a child had an African porcupine. Its quills (especially in back) resembled shafts of feathers to such an extent that for a long time i thought a porcupine was a kind of bird!

Ginger

I used to believe I could be a leopard when I grew up if I wanted to.

CJ

When I was a kid, I was told that if you wore your shoes backwards, a bear will come and eat you.

Rich

I used to believe that jellyfish changed colors, because the two places where I could see them had tanks with lights that changed color. It never dawned on me until years later, that all the the jellyfish and the water changed the same color at the same time.

Anon

For some reason when I was little, I thought camels were colossal and that their humps were like real mountains! I also knew whales were big but didn't know they were THAT big.

Anon

when we were young my sister, brother and I were watching a documentary on laughing hienas with my Dad and he convinced us they lived in the woods behind our house. At night to scare us he would say "Can laughing hienas open doors?"

Anon

i was told that a frisky horse had a sore whatsit wrapped in a bandage (which it still looks like to me) and that a neighbours frisky dog was 'allergic' to my blue pullover - i avoided wearing it after that!

eric irwin, aged 50 and a half - northern ireland

I used to believe the 'flying monkeys'in The Wizard of Oz were bred specially for films....due to a lying sister more evil than the witch who sent them after Dorothy.

Leigh 'still afraid of monkeys' Hawkins

When I was younger I used to believe in an animal called "dahu": this animal was supposed to live on the side of mountains, according to my relatives... I've been looking for it and even hunting it for ... a long time! It had two legs shorter than the two others, so that you just had to shout to make it turn back and fall! Then you could catch it!

Dom & Lu

When I was little I used to believe that monkeys could talk(when I was 5)!!

Tommy

ok not me but I caught my 5 year old nephew talking to 2 frogs he'd spotted in the garden the other day. He was babbling away and I asked him what he was doing, he introduced me to fred and bob (who funnily enough were mating at the time!). I asked him if he wanted a sandwich and he replied yes and bob wants a bag of crisps and fred wants a bar of chocolate! I thought it was sweet I didn't even mind him scamming extra food off me!

Jenna Horral

when i wa small ,i used to believe that horse could fly

joy

Once I saw a man using a monkey grinder on TV. When I saw the monkey just instantly dance, I was totally convinced. Once I went over to my friends house and she said, "Wanna play with my jack in the box?" To which I replied, "No they hypnotize you!" I thought that the monkey grinder was a jack in the box and that they make you dance when you hear it. From then on, I referred to a monkey grinder as a "monkey box".

Stupidkid

Me and a friend of mine believed that there was a dinossaur in the lake of our city, and we would hunt it when we were adults.

Claudia

when i was little i never had any beliefs. i used to think buffalo were what they were! big fuzzy animals that live on the plains, and all that. but then one day ,when i was maybe 4, we were driving through oklahoma and my dad pointed to a far-off speck on a "tower of rocks", he told my sister and i it was a buffalo!....and the way it got up there was by flying! and that they had wings. i didn't believe him but i always had this nagging thought in the back of my mind that buffalo wings had to come from SOMEWHERE!

FliesWithBuffalo

i used to believe that all monkeys were the same kind of animal as gorillas. i asked my mom once why orangutans were orange not black, and she told me they were different from gorillas and i thought she meant that WE were the same kind of animal as orangutans (because we had just gone on vacation and i got such a huge tan i looked orange) and in school the next day i tld my teacher that i was an orangutan because even my butt was orange, (i had a wedgie at the beach)-and except it wasn't hairy like orangutans, & my teacher frowned and all the kids laughed, mostly the stupid boys, and i had extra work to do.

orangutanqueen

When i was little, whenever we would arrive home I use to think that if you didn't get into the house quick enough a crocodile would chase you around because he wanted to eat you.

Anon

When I was 8 year old, I used to belive that flies borned if you left a piece of meat out of refrigerator for three days.

Alex

I used to believe that the moon was cheese and a rabbit lived there, sometimes I think it was true :)

Charly