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

Haha! I used to think that too! Someone told me that to scare me--jerks!

My friend convinced me that she had a rare mental condition that made her unable to see peoples hair.

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.

^^^^ AWESOME ^^^^

that when people who worked in grocery stores got all the money that went in their tills...haha i wish!

I grew up around a lot of farms. My dad had us kids convinced there was hill cows... Hill cows had two legs shorter so they could stand on the hill.

I also would not allow my feet to hang out of the covers for fear that something would grab them

I also thought that after my grandpa died he could still receive all my cards that I would make him...I would put them in my window thinking he would fly down and pick them up.

My dad told there were haggis in Scotland with the same thing and as they go only go up a mountain one way and there were different haggis's with the shorter legs on the other side. (To get down the mountain they would have to roll down)

-i believed that rabbits back legs were made of rubber bands thats why they could jump so high.
-shadows could attack you, so never stand near an uncovered window at night (still freaks me out to be near one)
-the plug hole in the bath would suck you down with it so dont be in the bath when you let the water out
- the plug in the center of the bottom of the pool would also suck you under.

My brother always told me that if you press that soft spot behind your ear lobe, you would die. And for some reason my mother backed him up on it. So he would always try to press on it.....

I also have a jacked up family, but I love em all!

Added another. My mother called them "Lie bumps" and when you get a popped out taste bud on your tongue and it hurts really bad, my mom would say oh you must have told a lie. I believed that well into my teens : D

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.

I'm sure I saw that on tv once. Somebody was talking about different foods and stated that you could use roaches in place of raisins and couldn't tell the difference. I'm 58 years old and to this day I won't eat raisins because of that. I googled it awhile back and couldn't find anything about using roaches for raisins but I still won't eat raisins. :noway:

I could say some of the sad things I thought to be true as a kid, but this is a fun forum post so I'll say the funny

I was obsessed with X-men and I just knew that I would be able to control the weather and/or move things with my mind, I tried and tried and was pretty upset when I couldn't do, my mom said I wouldn't be able to have my powers until puberty...so I prayed for puberty!

I thought if my closet door was open I would get attacked but whatever monsters that were there wouldn't be able to get me if the door was closed (they just weren't smart enough to open it from the inside)

when I was still pretty young my moms friend had a baby and I got to hold her, apparently I didn't hold the head very well so my mom told me if I didn't hold the head up it would roll off and they'd have to put it back on which was hard. When i got pregnant with my son, even though I knew it wasn't true, I was still terrified that his head would roll off and we wouldn't be able to put it back on.

I actually have one I just thought of

When I was younger I watched Child's Play, I was terrified and even more scared that I had a strawberry shortcake doll that i swear looked like Chucky. I stripped it of it's clothes and tossed in the trash and went to school. When I came home it was on my bed in a pair of overalls.

I cried for the rest of the night and my dad couldn't figure out what was wrong I just kept talking about the doll and I told him I threw it away, so he replied with "She just wants to play with you!" Which of course made it worse, it wasn't until my mom came home from work that she explained she found the doll in the trash cleaned her up and got her dressed. I didn't believe her for the longest time. I put the doll in my closet (because monsters couldn't get you if the door was closed)

That if you whistled in the house it would call the snakes

That the Scary shadows that appeared on my walls at night resembled images that would come to life.... So i never slept!:ohwell:

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

Haha yeah, I thought the movie Selena was a documentary following her in her real life, and I was so upset that the camera men just stood by and let her die without trying to help.

Monsters DID live under my bed. So, I would turn my light off and run as fast as I could and jump into bed. The I had to be under the covers because if any part was exposed they would get me!!

Me too! I will also admit that I still jump into bed and will not let my feet hang off for any reason! I know, I need to grow up!

:laugh: :laugh: Make that three of us. I turn a flashlight on and lay it on the floor to shine under the bed while I get in bed and can't let my feel hang over the edge of the bed.

After watching Mars Attacks at age 12 (I don't know why it was that movie -- I'm pretty sure that it's actually some sort of comedy), I was ****ing terrified that there was something under my bed that would grab me if I put my feet on the floor when the light was off, so I did the same thing you did. Flipped the switch, and lept across the room into my bed, just putting my foot down once for a second in the middle of my room. I did that for many years, until one day I lept too soon and I smashed my head on the frame of the bed. I was so embarassed that I never did that again.

I assumed the distant past was black and white.