around the house

I believed that the groove in the doorway that is the place that latches the doorknob was really a place where a mouse lived. I would always stand in the doorway to the bathroom and look for a mouse. Never saw one though.

Wendy

My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.

robyn c.

Growing up in a Korean household with my Mom's superstitions, we were led to believe that if you left the broom standing bristles up, it would turn into a man and he'd come kill you in the midde of the night! Yeah, my brother and I checked on our broom several times a night...just to be sure!

Neome

I took everything literally. When my mom mentioned she was going to "clean the lintcatcher", I pictured a butterfly net she must have used to run around the house with to catch lint. I wondered why I never saw it.

LHW

I'm 25 years old, and it's only a year ago since I found out what a wall-to-wall-rug really was. I had heard people talking about having them, but they could never prove it to me when I visited these people. I could see rugs on the floor, but where were the rugs on the walls!? I thought it meant having rugs on all the walls in a room meeting in the corners. Finally, last year someone told me that a wall-to-wall-rug meant a rug covering the entire floor. Silly me.

Eva from Norway

I have three daughters, 4, 6 and 7. They always put there dirty clothes in the laundry basket in our room. They usually have to be nosey and then I have to tell them to get out of our bedroom. I tell the girls that my bedroom is the Kingdom and they live in the village not the Kingdom and since I am the King I am also the warden so get out of my room. . So my 5 year old goes to school for show and tell and tells the class that she is a peasant that lives in the village and that the King is an evil warden.

Silly Kids...where do they come up with this stuff!

The Warden

I used to think satin was a material like velvet.

Anon

My friends and used to believe that the clay we found sometimes while digging in the dirt was actually "Chinese Clay" and that it was worth a lot of money. But we never knew where to take it to get the money.

Kimberly

When I was younger, I was told that all nuts and bolts are "righty tighty, lefty loosey." In other words, turn to the right, they will tighten, turn to the left, they will loosen.
Well one day I finally met my match, I spent hours trying to loosen some bolts on an old truck my dad had just bought, needless to say, later my uncle told me that the bolts were "ass backwards". Righty loosey, and lefty tighty.
To this day my nickname is still: Righty tighty.

Andrew-Conrad Murphy

My dad used to tell me a little green man lived in the attic and would hop around creating a banging noise. My brother and I were terrified and would go nowhere near the attic ladder.

I found out later that the attic window had a broken shutter that would bang on windy days.

Frodo Lives

Up until I was about 10, my brother (7 years older) and cousin (2 years older) made me undoubtedly believe that I was literally "made" in the basement. Nuts, bolts, slabs of metal, and whatever else they could find because they wanted someone to play with after school.

Little Tin Lady

I used to belive that no one could see me behidn the couch so i would hide there when i didnt want to go places i would hide there and i would close my eye no one could see me in my house with my eyes closed! lol

Pixie

My mother used to tell us that if children drank coffee they would not be able to sleep and would jump all night, so I believed just that - lying in bed and my body jumping up and down, if I drank coffee.

I also used to beleive that the kitchen appliances could go wrong and start punching your face like in Donald Duck comics, and so I was really scared, and still am, of those things (fridges, stoves, dish washers, etc.)

Paz