What weird stuff did you believe as a kid?

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When I was younger my over active imagination and my comedic parents led me to believe a series of bizarre things ....

For example -

Sequins gathered in dark corners would fly off to parties in the night.

Yorkshire puddings grew in mines and naughty kids had to go down to mine for them.

Old photos were taken from the ‘black and white days’ where everything really was just black and white, until the first colour was invented (red) which is why postboxes, telephone boxes buses etc are red. Also why some Tudor houses are black and white - they were accidentally missed !

• mum and dad were born during the dinosaur ages

• a cupboard in my room turned me invisible

And I read one on Facebook (which prompted this thread) a boy was adopted as a baby but was black, his adoptive family were white. They told him the other kids were born in the day, and he at night !
This lad then began telling the other black kids at his school that they were simply born at night, and white kids in the day .... ahahaha

I’m sure there’s more !

What weird stuff did you believe ?!

This one's a bit macarbe.
People were actually buried inside their grave stones. I remember thinking. How do they fit in there, and I figured. Well they must squash them up.

Nurses were women
Doctors were men.

When my mum used to take me to my nans on the bus. I found it very strange that the destination on the front. didn't say. "Spider's nans"

I'll probably remember more

Good thread

I grew up in a Bible-believing Christian household so when my mum told me that platypuses were made of "all the bits God had left over" after he made all the animals, I didn't even think to question it.

I was about 17 before it truly dawned on me that the Bible didn't actually ever mention platypuses...

On Saturday mornings, my sister and I would go to the children's matinee at the ABC cinema. Before the film, there was always a jolly little song - with the words on the screen and a bouncing ball on the words - that included the line "We're minors of the ABC". I confused minors with miners - because we went a long way down some stairs and it was very dark.

I was told that you could never cut your toe or finger nails on Fridays because that’s the day when witches gathering things for their spells. Now as a rational grown up with children, I still can’t deviate and have been known to wait until one minute past midnight to cut my nails... truely bonkers

That I could will it to snow more by stupid repetitive actions which had just coincided with a flurry.
That chewing gum swallowed would tangle my innards in unspecified horrific ways.
That people from differing countries would always know the person I knew in that country.
That Stepping on pavement cracks really was unlucky (this didn’t last too long thank god).

That Frankie was going to come back from Hollywood at some point.

Well, I thought when people were saying 'vagina' that they were saying 'pagina' (pronounced puh-gina). So I went around until I was about 9 talking about my pagina!

nottonightjosepheen love everything about that !

That ATM machines would give you potentially unlimited money, and people would only ask for a little thanks to their common sense.

That people would marry and then just wait for a child for a variable amount of time decided by God.

That Santa wasnt real and shops opened at night on Christmas Eve so parents could go out and buy the gifts.

You know when you change lanes on a motorway? I used to think that you press a button and the car moves sideways hahaha

My dad told me that everyone had talking tokens... That if you talk to much they would run out and you would never be able to talk again!
I remember when I was watching the news as a kid and they were talking about a cyclone, I sat there in terrified silence wondering why people weren't making a bigger deal about this and freeking out... I thought they were talking about a massive one eyed monster 😂😂

When driving, on the side of the road there was all the wooden crosses, like markers or something, I thought that was all the people who had died while driving and they had been buried at the side of the road

That evaporated milk is elephants milk.

That cats were girls and dogs were boys.

oldclairdelaloon

“That cats were girls and dogs were boys”.

😂😂😂

Long time ago 1960s - That to 'spend a penny' meant taking a penny to take to the sweet shop. Most disappointed to discover that it meant going to the loo.

That when you were 11 you changed into a boy or if you were a boy you changed into a girl.

Little people living in the radio.

That Coronation Street was real
and that we were being secretly filmed for other people to watch.

I thought quicksand was going to play a far more significant role in my life than it actually has. It seemed to feature in all the TV programmes at the time (late 70s / early 80s). I just assumed there would be that much of it in real life, and knowing how to get out of it was the same as knowing how to swim, or cross the road. Still hasn't come in useful yet.

that I would get AIDS if I didn't wash hands before eating

That if I became famous (as a conductor, for some reason - I'm not musical) my fans would love to know what I ate so they could emulate my eating habits and pretend they were just like me.

I'd imagine I was being interviewed whilst eating my dinner and think such things as "and I mash up my cauliflower into my gravy".

That cats were girls and dogs were boys

I used to believe this too.

Calendars that had the dates in little boxes with blank boxes after the last day in the month, I would wonder what date we called those days because the next month was on the following page... 🤔

That if I slept with my feet out of the covers, a monster would bite my toes off. I'm still not completely convinced that isn't the case.

That my granddad defeated the Nazis with five of his friends.

Little people living in the radio.

I thought all the songs on the radio were performed by the same people, like a band in the studio.