hair

When I was 8 or 9 my grandmother told me if I wore a baseball cap (which I was doing all summer), I would lose all my hair. I like that baseball cap so much I took my chances (and still have most of my hair).

Andrea

When I was 5/6, I asked mom why dad was bald. Dad told me his hair blew away in a tornado. Everytime I watch the Wizard of Oz, I think of my dad!

Michele

My parents used to have a best friend, named Jason. (And he still is. Great guy.) When my sister and I were young, aparently, he told us that his moustache was a caterpiller. Then he would wiggle it around, and say that his eye brows were caterpillers too, making them wiggle as well. Hence forth, my sister and I have always thought of him as "the caterpiller man".

Amy

My granny told me that hair was the dead roots of your brain! I believed this for many years and once mistakingly mentioned it to my hairdresser who nearly died laughing (along with the rest of the salon)

Sally

I have naturally blonde hair but I also have red and dark blonde in it. When I was in 6th grade I'd play with my hair in class and one day I found a dark black hair! I was mortified, I didn't want to lose my blonde hair so I examined all the hair I could and yanked out all the black ones thinking they wouldn't grow back.

Kristy

When I was younger, my grandpa used to have us kids take turns rubbibg his bald head. He told us that it would make his hair grow. He would have a few strands left on his head and in a couple days he would say "LOOK! You kids are helping grandpas hair grow!"
What a way to get a free head rub!

Ang

When my mum was little, boys kept pulling her pigtails. It turned out there was a rumour going around that she had holy pigtails and pulling them was good luck. I suspect that one was started by an enemy!

Magz

One day when I was 7 I was at work with my dad and I was outside with a pencil poking a spider web with it and dad came out to say lets go home he was done. I got in the truck and had the end of the pencil in my mouth and remembered where I had it at first and told my dad and he told me that spider webs will put hair on my chest for days after that I was always checking cause I was a girl and did not want that, to this day I still check it at times...pretty silly uh!!! 45 now

Gwenda S.

I used to believe that my head was filled with hair waiting to grow.

Poppy

My Aunt used to tell me that if I went to sleep with my hair wet (from taking a bath/shower), I would become blind.

Peter

i use to believe that bald people had such shiny heads cause they didnt eat there vegatables

TEM

Im 31 and had this belief until I was 24
(cause I'm an idiot!) I used to think that all afros were wigs. When I was young I never new any young person with a fro. Only adults.Being that all my relatives did not have that type of hair,I could never understand exactly how human hair could get into that shape & texture.The little boy on Seseme Street with a fro even deapened the mystery. Years went by and I saw a James Bond monvie (Live & let Die) Where a spy woman rips her afro off and throws it on a bed. Well case solved all afros were wigs, and the little boy on sesame street had to look his best and wear a wig for the camera!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since the case was closed I never gave it another thought. Until five years ago when a friend's brother grew one. My dawn of reckoning..............

Robert Sean Gibson

I thought that only men had hair under their arms, and that women didn't. Kind of like how only men can grow beards- same thing. I was a teenager when my mom told me that women have armpit hair- they just shave it off. It took me awhile to believe it. I'm a male, by the way.

Paul

I used to believe only certain men grew beards, not all of them.

Shauna