around the house

We had an old stove in the living room which my mom never used. My sister and I would stuff it with paper. Sometimes the paper would disappear. Well, I then thought that there must be an invisible monkey living in the stove that ate paper. So we kept feeding the invisible monkey. Later I came to find out that it was my father who cleaned the stove and took the paper out. So much for the monkey!

Anon

I use to watch my food being cooked in the microwave. Well when I was about 4, my dad told me that if I watched the microwave when it was cooking my food, I would get high. And up until I think last week I believed him until someone told me otherwise.

gulible

When I was little my mom told me that if you look into a microwave when it was on, you would grow a third eye in the middle of your head. I tried to tell myself she was joking, but to this day I still don't look for too long into the microwave. The sad part is that I'm 22.

Smitty

when i was young my mum always used to tell me 'close the door in case a draught gets in' only i thought she said 'close the door in case a giraffe gets in', and i always used to run and close it because i was so scared of the giraffe. I also genuinely beleived the 3 bears of goldilocks story lived in my garden, and that when my dad took my nose he really had it.

tough girl

I used to believe that when I turned the television off and then came back later, the show would pick up where I left off...

bradley

When we were kids, my mother would tell us that if we lefts our galoshes on in the house we would go blind. Now I realise that she probably wanted to be sure we wouldn't track up the house.

D.Moreau

When I was little I used to believe that when I went to bed someone would come and watch me so I used to wrap my head and face up in my blanket because I figured if I cant see them, they cant see me :S

Anon

When i was 13 (I'm 14 now) I asked my mother if houses came with door knobs. cuz i found one in the house but it wasn't on the door. So i thought houses didn't come with door knobs. I still get laughted at 4 that.

Jenn

When i was little I didn't know what being grounded was... well my next door neighbor who is like 4 years older than me (i was like 7 or 8) got grounded for a week and her sister had told me that and i was like oh... ok(not knowing what she meant by that) then i juss kinda left... i had thought katie's parents had buried her in the ground in between our houses... so the next day i was eating an apple and walked past where katie was "buried" so i kneeled on the ground and knocked on the ground "katie? are you there? hello?!" then i took the seeds of my apple and buried them in the ground thinking katie wasnt being fed(after all i hadnt seen her parents out there feeding her) and i thought the seeds would grow right where she was and she would eat the apples that came out of the seed

Christy from NC

I used to believe that when u moved house, a long lorry with no roof can to where our house was picked it up with its arms, and drove it too your new house

Aimee

When I was a kid, we had a package of beeswax in the kitchen, for just what use(s) I don't know. But one time my mother told me that beeswax was wax out of people's ears. So I thought that for a long time. It wasn't until college that I again had enough occasion to encounter and think about beeswax to question what my mother had said. Only then did I get to thinking, from the name, that beeswax might just come from bees, not from human ears.

Robert

When I was younger, around 4 or 5, I used to always think that fire would blaze like crazy if you lit it just in one place. So whenever my mom or dad took out a lighter, I'd run away as fast as I can and made sure that I don't get anywhere near that area until the fire was blown out.

caraboo

when my kids were little, we lived in a flat with hissing radiators. the kids thought the radiator in the bathroom sounded like darth vader from star wars, and believed that darth vader hid in our bathroom when the lights were off. so, they wouldn't go in unless someone went in first and turned on the lights, opened the shower curtain, and looked behind the door! needless to say, we just left the bathroom light on for years!

peg

Our neighbors across the street had a green tool shed. Next to this tool shed, there was a tree that shaded several large rocks, covered by long reeds. Well, for some reason I believed that Winnie the Pooh lived in the green shed; and the man who owned the house told me that an alligator lived in the tall grass, so for years I believed that, too.

Maeghan Jade

When i was younger i was petrified of the dark and insisted on having the hall light on and my bedroom door wide open, at one point my bed was placed so i was looking out the door (where all i could see was the hoover) when lying down, for some reason i was always scared that there was some1 hiding behind the hoover waiting to come out and stab me to death, i have no idea where i got the fear especially as it was clearly obvious that not even a small dog would be able to hide behind the thing without my noticing!!!

i was a pretty imaginative child!!!

me :P

my sister told me that someone was buried in one of the walls. After seeing a movie where this happened I no doubt it wasn't true

rachel rodriguez AZ

This wasn't neccessarily a belief, just a funny little tidbit... When I was maybe 10 or so I found this pink plastic container with flowers and butterflies on it in the garbage can in our bathroom. I took it out and my mom stopped me and was like "what are you doing with that?!?" I said I was going to use it as a pencil holder for school. She took it from me, and said I couldn't do that. I was all confused, because what I didn't know (and she finally told me, because I wouldn't give up) was that the container was the package her birth control pills came in... Even after she told me that, I still really didn't get what the big deal was. Looking back it probably would have been pretty embarressing if one of my fellow students or their parents, or the teachers had recognized my "pencil holder" as a birth control container!

blushing at the thought :-)