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

Thought when people died in the movies that they actually died. Always thought to myself why would they volunteer for that! LOL

I believed in and was scared to death of bigfoot and I even lived in the inner city! :bigsmile:

That every girl was born with a baby inside her belly and as she got bigger the baby got bigger and eventually came out. I don't know how I reconciled that idea with the fact that some people have more than one kid and that some had no kids at all.

for me ..

1. lil people lived inside my grandmas tv
2. when you die you go into this machine (like a wood chopper) and come out as a bird
3. cats were females, dogs were male
4. women were nurses , doctors were male
5. i also believed in the swamp monster and after seeing 1 in the zoo ( a statue) i was convinced it was outside my window 1 night and my mom called the cops thinking i saw a man ( it was a shadow from a giant stuffed turtle on my bed and tree branches)
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my husband

1. you could be anything you want to be .. as in , want to be a baseball player, then you just go to the team and tell them
2. he thought the singers on the radio was all sitting around saying they hope they get to play today
3. that dogs were really people in costumes
4. he said he also thought there were lil people in tvs and people behind a screen at the movies

1. I thought when my mom took here glasses off to clean them she was instantly blind and couldn't see a thing. Freaked the heck out of me when she'd change into her sunglasses while driving!

2. For awhile I thought my mom was a vampire.

3. Thought there was a globe around the earth that kept the blue and all the air in and that when a rocket went into outer space they had a specific hole they had to shoot for.

My older cousin convinced me when I was little that they incinerated mice and used the ashes to flavor Coca-cola. I don't think I drank Coke till my late teens after that.

Oh yeah and subliminal Satanic messages in heavy metal music vids.

I was pretty stupid.

I used to talk to Cookie Monster once a week... it was my uncle

I thought I could hold myself up in mid air if I rested my knees on a baton!

Duh!:laugh:

I am SO guilty of trying this too!!

I used to think that thunder was the sound of dinosaurs stomping down the street. And that the yolk of an egg was the chicken that didn't hatch. I wouldn't eat eggs for the longest time...

I used to think that one day we were going to go to the store and take my little brothers back!

Cops are the good guys
Columbus was a hero

Oh, my brother and I set a rabbit trap in our back yard when I was about 5 and he was 7. We were sooo excited when we "caught" this pretty black bunny. He was our pet for years! My brother was relating the story to somebody when he was 20 and I was 18 and my parents finally told us that they had bought the rabbit and put him in our trap to make us think we caught him. We were both crushed XDD

When I was really little, my mom convincend me that I had the power to turn red stoplights to green. She would wait until they were about to change and then tell me to wave my hands and say some magic words. I believed it for years.

My cousin and his friend used to babysit me when I was little. They were both 8 years older than me, so I was probably 6 or so and they would always tell me that I was "A Jive Turkey" and that they were calling the "High Jive Hotline" and reporting me and that someone was coming to take me away for talking while they were playing Atari.

Believed:
If I swallowed bubble gum, I would fart bubbles.
The Gum Trees in my cousin's front yard grew juicy fruit and bubbly yum.
That my Dad had a metal plate in his head.

I was a really gullible child...