What is the craziest thing you believed to be true as a kid?

Melanie_RS

In 4th grade my friend and I saved up our allowances to buy a Magic Genie that would appear when we held this card in our hands...it was from an ad in the back of the Enquirer. We spend DAYS dreaming of what we'd wish for! When we finally got it, it was exactly what it said, a genie that was on a mood ring type card and the heat of your hand would make a genie image appear.

We were CRUSHED!!!
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Squeeee

- Thanks to my parents, I believed that picking your nose would make you go bald.

- "Toiletries" were trees...that grow in the toilet.

- Pistachio ice cream was called "Boogerberry Cruch"

- I believed that Santa liked cheese and crackers with Coke. Not milk and cookies.

- I thought people became pregnant from kissing.

- I used to mix up the words "makeup" and "make-out"

- That the phrase "...on something like white on rice" was actually "...on something like SPIT on rice."

...and a million others I can't quite think of at the moment. I don't know how I survived to adulthood. :indifferent:

SomeMorr

A guy I dated once told me, as a kid his mom told him that drinking alcohol would make him turn into a black person... seriously he believed it for years.

giggles7706

That if I closed my eyes, I was invisible.

Also, that the road moved and pulled the cars down the road. Haha

AshleeOllmann

this is kinda gross, but when my sister and i were toddlers, she used to pick her nose and my mom would always tell her there was a snail that lived in everyones nostrils, and it liked to bite any "searching fingers".......we were a messed up family.

Oh my goodness. My mum told me the fragles from fragle rock lived in my nose and built the boogies and if I picked my nose I was killing them.

soontobesam

All sorts of bad things lived in the basement.

I hated going down there and if I did I would make sure on my way out to walk towards the stairs facing the room and wouldn't turn until just before booking it up the stairs as fast as my little legs could take me because I was sure that as soon as I turned my back on it - the bad things would come out of hiding to eat me.

Also - my family is from Poland and I spent a lot of summers there as a kid. The apartment my grandma lived in had these big bucket type things (for washing laundry) but someone told me that's where the monsters slept - I believed it for a long time.

stepherzzzzz

I was terrified of bugs when I was younger and would only go outside if it was windy because I figured the bugs wouldn't be able to move around then.

I thought that if I talked into the mic on my parents' cassette player the people on the radio could hear me. I thought the same about soap operas on TV, but I blame my grandmother for that one cause she talked to them too lol.

I thought that if I covered my eyes nobody could see me.

terrellc1

My mother and her friend told me that a female peacock was actually called a pea****.

AngelaWeber

That if I crossed my eyes they would get "stuck" that way. Still not entirely ure this isn't true, so if I must cross them it's done really quickly lol.

My bestfriends older brother told me that my his sister sleep walked at night and if I pent the night at their house she would get me. I don't think I spent the night there until we were in high school.

That one particular neighbor was a witch. If you walked by her house and peeped through the window you had to run or else....

That my father was orange. I actually gave a description to my elementary school teacher. He's tall, has brown eyes, curly hair and is orange lol. He till looks pretty orange to me hahaha

SweetNaughtyLips

I was told that if I ever get lost, look for the spotlight in the sky and follow it and someone will be there to help you. As I got older, I realized that most of those spotlights led to Strip Clubs...:laugh:

ElisaMarie82

Jaws was real! I still can't swim in lakes, rivers, or pools that are too deep to see the bottom.

jplord

The monsters under your bed would leave you alone if you were asleep and they knew you were asleep becasue you don''t breath when you are sleeping. SO I would hold my breath to avoid being eaten......

SP2Bfit

that if you swallowed gum it would stay in your stomach for 7 years

DaughterOfTheMostHighKing

that when the united states had the civil war the continent actually split in half... hey, plate techtonics.... right? what do you expect of a 6th grader who's a visual learner? lol!!!

Natx83

I would one join the optimus prime, roll out with the autobots to destroy megaton and the evil decepticons

jnhu72

One that comes to mind: When I was younger my dad would take us mushroom hunting. To get me not to talk, he told me that the mushrooms would run away if I wasn't quit. I know there was a lot more, but I can't think of any.

atjays

Let's just say my dad didn't explain the "birds and the bees" clearly enough. When I originally found out the "truth" I was appalled.... It's all good now though hahaha

CassieReannan

Swallowing watermelon seeds grows a watermelon in your stomach (Lol)

Natx83

Swallowing watermelon seeds grows a watermelon in your stomach (Lol)

It doesn't? I can once again eat watermelon!! Lol

_hi_hat3r_

Jason vorhees and bigfoot

Laura_Suzie

I believed women pushed the baby out from their bellybuttons and that everyone waited until marriage to have sex. haha

Also, both my parents have blue eyes so I believed that you could only marry people with the same eye color as you.

osualex

I thought India and Indiana were the same place until I was like eight...

CassieReannan

Swallowing watermelon seeds grows a watermelon in your stomach (Lol)

It doesn't? I can once again eat watermelon!! Lol

I saw a Rugrats episode about Chuckie eating a watermelon seed and he grew it in his stomach, I was scared to eat fruit for years. ... lol.

BobinNC66

White and black cows made white milk and black cows made chocolate milk!

BobinNC66

When I was very young, "Missle Command" came out in the arcade... I used to think those big antennae's you see around the city with the red flashing lights were ant-ballistic missles that the government stationed around the city to protect us from the Russians.

Loved that game!

pigwidgeon82

i was very gullible as a child (still am).

there was a hotel near my house with a sign showing a sunset with a bird on it. my dad told me it was the bat motel and that kept bats in all the rooms. terrified me, so i always thought witches lived there and was afraid to go near it on halloween.

i also thought planes could drop bombs on me so anytime i was outside and saw a plane i would run and hide so they couldn't see me.

i thought all cats were girls and all dogs were boys and that all horses were girls and cows were boys. i was kind of disappointed when i found out this was not true.

i also was very nosy. i would always ask my mom who was on the phone and she would always reply, "Nunya", for none ya business. I always just accepted Nunya as a weird name, wondered why she called so much, and really wanted to meet her.

my mom told me when she was little she believed two wrongs DID make a right, so when she would do something bad, she would do something else bad to even it out.

julie0506

This is cute!

My dad loved to mess with me, he told me he was 138yrs old, so of course i told everyone he was.

We were going to the drive in and i wanted to bring a friend, so her mother wanted to know what we were going to see, my dad told me " The Underwater Basket Weaver" LOL, love him!

Cait_Sidhe

My brother told me there was a troll living in my heating vent and would come out and eat my hamster while I slept. So I used to sleep with my hamster's cage next to my pillow. My mother would get mad because it would shred my pillowcase and the edge of my pillow.

He also told me that raisins are dead cockroaches and I still can't eat them.

gizziemonkey

growing up by train tracks...at night...a train would pass and my bed would shake....I always thought it was a variety of animals under my bed shaking it....to this day I have to sleep with at least a sheet covering my feet :0)

jackpotclown

my grandfather had me convinced that if I behaved badly that he could kick me to the moon, he also convinced me that we had a cardinal that watched over our family......no matter where we went, or how many different places we lived
I also believed that gum stayed in your system 7 years if swallowed
if you ate any type of seeds they would grow in your stomach
the tooth fairy, bigfoot, and santa was real, and if we were bad around christmas time, that my folks could call santa and it would be "minus 1, no hard feelings".