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

Melanie_RS · May 2012

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!!!
(edited for spelling)

Squeeee · May 2012

- 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 · May 2012

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 · May 2012

That if I closed my eyes, I was invisible.

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

AshleeOllmann · May 2012

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 · May 2012

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 · May 2012

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 · May 2012

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

AngelaWeber · May 2012

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 · May 2012

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 · May 2012

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

jplord · May 2012

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 · May 2012

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

DaughterOfTheMostHighKing · May 2012

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 · May 2012

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

jnhu72 · May 2012

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 · May 2012

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