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I used to believe when I was four that when my parents said,"make your bed" that they meant that I really had to make a duplicate of my bed. At first, I didn't know what to do. Then when my parents found me in my room with nails, a hammer,a saw, and wood trying to make my bed they had to explain that MAKING a bed means fixing the sheets not actually making one.

Kristen

that there was a man in my shed and if i ever went in there he would stab me (my mum told me that one.....THANX MUM)

lilmisssmall

When i was little i used to think little leperkons lived in the basment.. and when you turned out the lights they would get you

Anon

Most people know that there is an emergency shutoff switch for oil burners, usually surrounded by a red plate. When I was younger, I was told not to touch that switch... ever. My belief was that if you flipped that switch, the oil burner would blow up.

Doug

When I was about nine, my cousin told me that when a smoke detector blinks red, it means there is a fire. I went and asked my dad if it was true and he told me it just meant the detector is working. However I still can't look at a smoke detector. If I do, and it blinks red, I freak out still

Erin

I went to a friend’s spa party, and while I was in their spa I was suddenly busting for a pee. We were playing "spa evictions" so I couldn't be stuffed getting out. I decided to do my wee in there and kept playing. My friend’s mum came out to check on us and some one said generally "Oh I really need to pee" and my friends mum said "No one do it in my spa because this chemical reacts to urine and make a dark blue substance come out onto your pants.” A few people turned red, but not as red as me. When every one else was calling it quits I stayed in and I think people suspected. Eventually I came out of the spa and to my surprise nothing happened to my boardies! My friend told me later her mum always says that coz she hates people peeing in the spa. I never pee in a spa again as long as I live. And also a warning to you all: DON’T STICK YOUR HEAD UNDER THE WATER IN A SPA!

Kate

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

My sister and I once played this trick on my brother. We weighed him on our scale, which was in our upstairs bathroom. Then we told him to go breath the air in the pantry downstairs. While he was down there, we turned this knob on the scale, which made it look like whoever stepped on it, weighed more. So my brother came up and weighed about 20 lbs. more. Then we got him to believe that if he breathed the air in the downstairs bathroom, then he would lose 20 lbs. and simply put the scale back to its normal setting. This went through several rounds before we told him.

Muff

i used to beleive that everythime i came out of my bedroom, which is just beside the bathroom, to go downstairs, that cheetas or lions would dive out the toilet to come and eat me so everytime i had to go down the stairs i would absolutly bolt it... i can't remember how many times i went flying!!

Alison

I used to believe when I was little that the room underneath the stairs was where the boogeyman lived with his pets (Which happened to be crocodiles) and at night they used to come out and look for someone to eat.

I used to hide underneath my blankets at night because I didn't want the boogeyman to come and eat me or feed me to his pet crocodiles.

If I had to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I'd take a flashlight and walk very slowly down the stairs. I'd pause for a second before the room under the stairs and then run really fast past it because I used to think he'd jump out and grab me.

Jay

In the third grade my bike spokes were rusty so my mom bought me some Naval Jelly to solve the problem. As I thought it over I wondered if Naval Jelly was anything like elbow grease. My mom just laughed when I asked her if this was true.

David

When i was younger i also thought that if you painted your walls yellow that when the lights were off that the room would stay light

Pogo

Sometimes I made my mom go ahead of me and turn on all the lights I'd need to get ready for bed. I was scared that in the dark lurked a scary person who would be frightened off if my mom turned on the lights. I was never scared of my brother's room, which I had to pass in order to go from the bathroom to my bedroom and which was dark, since I didn't go in there to get ready for bed. I was only scared of darkened rooms which I'd have a reason to go into.

Kristen

I was brought up by my grandparents.
Once i sneezed while crossing the threshold of kitchen.
My grandma stopped me right there and splashed some water on my head saying that it was her belief.Spooky!
So whenever i was about to sneeze i used to run to the nearby threshold so that i can get wet and play with water.That was such a fun. Wish i can revert......

raji

When I was 2, I had a nightmare about a monster named "the SOund" THat lived in my wall. I was terrified of that wall, and still am.

Grant

My dad had this White Lions album. To scare the bejeesus out of me, he'd stick his hand into it and yell "it ate my fingers!". He'd pull his hand back out with several fingers bent so that they looked like they were misssing. To calm me down he'd put his hand back in, and bring it out with the fingers "back". For a long time I wouldn't go near that album, think it was his stash.

Ben

We thought each plug was for a particular thing, and if you plug the wrong thing it won't work properly, as in plugging the TV to the plug meant for the piano it will play music that's all

Anon

When I was younger, we used to have a small peice of painted wood that held and connected our stairs together. I used to think that it was what the builders used to swing down the stairs very quickly when they were building and painting our house.

Nina

I used to believe that when i heard on tv that people were addicted to painkillers, that they were addicted to tylenol. i mean thats what i used to kill my pain when i was little.

Anon

When I was 5, my Mum's ex told me when I misbehaved that my Grandmother had set up microphones in every room in the house and could hear everything that I said. I believed this until I was about 9 or 10 and until then was constantly paranoid about what I said even when I wasn't misbehaving.

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