around the house

when we were kids (me n bro) we were forever pulling at the xmas tree decorations and running into the tree causing it to fall over, our parents put pine cones on the tree and told us it was poo. Needless to say we never went near that tree again!

becca

I USED TO BELIEVE THAT LIQUORICE ALL SORT MEN LIVED DOWN THE BACK OF OUR SOFA AND SPENT AGES TRYING TO FIND ONE

Anon

I used to believe JAWS lived in my water bed...(i was 8!!!) I spent many many nights sleeping on the floor cuz I felt his "dorsal fin" poking into my back!!!

Tracy Wheeler

When I was a kid I used to believe that you could write with a pen for ever and ever. I didn't know that there was an ink filled tube inside. One time a pen ran out on me but I didn't know it - I thought it was broken somehow - and I tried for hours and hours to get it to work and got really mad when it wouldn't. I don't know how many years later I found out that there were actual inner workings to a pen and I still remember thinking at that time "Hmmmmm, I guess that pen years ago just ran out on me!!" and felt pretty stoopid after that. lol

smokkee911

I used to believe that if I slept close enough to the wall, it would somehow hide me in case someone tried to kidnap me.

Sarah

You know how household products often have a "First Aid" label telling you what to do if someone gets it in their eyes or swallows it? Well, I used to think the "First Aid" instructions explained how to convert the product into some sort of medicine. You would do this if there were a war and you couldn't get to a doctor.

Preston

I thought when we moved our neighbours would come with us and cried for weeks and weeks when I found this wasnt going to happen.

Sandy (Sydney Australia)

The previous owner of the house I grew up in had been a photographer, and he had made a small darkroom downstairs. He removed his equipment when he moved out, and my parents used the room for storage while still referring to it as "the darkroom." I thought it was a common thing for houses to have small, windowless storage rooms, and that they were all called darkrooms.

Jim

i used to believe in many frightening things at our flat, many of them lurking in my room at night, but i was never scared of the dining room: there, under the bench, where we put the plastic shopping bags, slept a friendly burglar. i was sure he wouldn't hurt me but on the contrary wake up when something was wrong and protect me from any evil!

Anon

This is actually my husband's story, when he was younger, he thought a giraffe lived in his room. His mother always told him that it felt like there was a DRAFT in his room. Of course, the two of them enventually straigtned this misunderstanding up, but I think it is a riot!

rewan

I remember not too long ago my nephew told me he'd seen his step-dad doing naughty things on the sofa. As you imagine I thought the worst and mentioned to my brother in law. He just laughed pointing out that the only thing my nephew had walked in on was him eating a curry. My nephew's never been allowed to eat in the living room and he considered it really NAUGHTY!

Jen

when i was younger i found myself to be very gullible, and believed every word my brother ever said to me. boy that was a mistake. when we were in the garage, there is that cord hanging down and he told me to never pull it unless theres a robber or bad guy in the garage..and when you pull the cord the garage door would fall off the hinges and crush the guy. i was so afaid to even look at it, and i gave it some thought, andi realized if i pulled it that i too would get crushed. only recently have i found out what the cord does..but i still wouldnt wanna pull it

splattered

When I learned about mobile homes, I wanted one so bad! When I was like 6 I decided that the coolest thing ever would be to grow up and live in a mobile home in your parents driveway. Now that's about the worst thing I can imagine!

Anon

i used to believe that people inside the television were doing it live and was amazed because they didnt look sleepy when i watched til in the early morning.

mara

You know how if you look at a lightbulb, and then look away and blink a bit, you see a kind of after-image of the filament. If I did this I used to think that I was seeing "bugs".

Once I did this when I was staying with my aunt. When I saw the "bugs", I went and told my aunt that there were bugs everywhere. She went to look but didn't see any bugs, and she wondered what I was on about...

Alan

I used to think mattresses were stuffed with buffalo hair.

Also, an allergist told my mom to buy plastic covers for the mattress so my allergies wouldn't be so bad, and I went around for probably the next 5 years thinking I was allergic to buffalo hair.

Anon, a mouse

i used to believe untill i was about 10 that in my little night light that was at the bottom of my stairs, that there was an actuall fairy in there, as we called it ''the fairy light''!! Untill one day were i just stumbled down the stairs and broke the light an dhad a huge tantrum about it because i killed the fairy!!! =-{ {-=

Paige Cronk

I used to believe that there was a gorrilla hiding in my Nan's shed and used to sneak food out to it but left it outside the door. When it had dissappeared (because my grandparents had taken it), I would put more out. I didn't realize for years what was actually happening!

Mavis

We had this picture of an old voctorian house in the hallway just outside my bedroom. I used to think that if I stared at it for too long I would get sucked in and I'd see a long line of people. The people at the front would jump out after you got sucked in and I'd have to go to the back of the line and wait my turn to get out of the picture.

Don't stare at pictures

When I was a child, I used to think that water than came out of the bathroom sink was very bad and undrinkable, because the same plumbing came to the toilet. And maybe it was like drinking out of the toilet. Only drinkable water came out of the kitchen sink.

Linda, Los Angeles