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Parents and other family members always want their children to grow up as wise and generally good human beings. Well, if there’s one thing we know about parenthood — raising kids is no easy task. That’s why moms and dads have to get a bit creative to push them in the right direction, and, sometimes, that involves stretching the truth and saying innocent white lies.
Kids will believe pretty much everything they’re told. So a few months ago, user AfterIsIsIsIsIsWas decided to find out what silly things people thought were real when they were younger. When they asked fellow Redditors, "What were the dumbest lies you believed when you were a kid?" thousands of people chimed in.
Bored Panda has selected some of the best answers from this thread to make up a hilariously relatable collection of childhood myths that some people believed a bit too long. Continue reading, upvote the ones you enjoyed most, and share your own stories in the comments!
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#1
Lost my stuffed animal (a white dog) in the airport in Miami when I was 5. It was my favorite and I was really sad about it. A few weeks later my mom presented me with a brown dog that otherwise looked exactly like the white one I’d lost. She said the workers at the airport had found it and mailed it to us, but he got a tan because he was in Florida. Bought it hook line and sinker for a few years. Tan dog is now my son’s and he’s a big fan :)
Tiia Korhonen 3 years ago
My son had a kitten toy. It got lost and later I found exactly same looking toy except an adult cat. I bought it to my son and told him the cat had just grown up while it was lost.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Hahaha I left my glow worm in a Shoney’s between Atlanta and chattanooga when I was little. Me and my dad drove all the way back the next day. We called 1st to make sure it was there. When we got there a little girl ( who knows who she was ) was holding my glow worm. Maybe the staff thought it would be a touching moment ? I walked up to that kid, grabbed my glow worm and walked away! I’m not sure why I was so mad 😂😂 I’m sure when I left everyone clapped 😂😂😂
Kanuli 3 years ago
Tzz. Wish I had been as gullible. They replaced it similar, but even got the „exact“ same. But I remember stuff super detailed, and it was not the exact same. I did not accept it and kept grieving. Worse to me is kinda even the lie? I was lied to so often I myself got as honest as one can be. I hate being lied to, it will destroy my trust in you forever. And I rather hurt or get hurt or ruin my chances at a job or in life than lie. Coincidentally this created alot of trust in some people around me, and also at work, and I won’t change and just be glad for this. People start to accept me like this. It’s not always easy, and I have to constantly self analyse myself. But I can’t. I am thinking how I should deal with this if I had kids though. I don’t wanna take away their dreams, and magic, like mythical creatures or innocence, but I don’t wanna have them become like me either, at least not because they felt like being lied at constantly.
Vicky Zar 3 years ago
Compromise. Let them believe in Santa and stuff, but do not lie in important things like loosing a pet or a toy. Do not deceive them with their food.... thats my "problem" by the way. My Mother did that to me. She thought I should eat more meat or whatever and mixed it in mashed potatoes for example. As if I would not notice the taste and texture being different! I do not do that to my kids. Oh and what I think very important too: when they ask you if something will hurt, tell them the truth! A shot at the doctor? Tell them that yes it probably will hurt a bit, but it will be over very soon and not hurt for long. They will trust you more if you do that. They will loose their trust if you constantly like in these "little" things.
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Aisling Raye 3 years ago
This is so adorable. I wish my parents had done something similar when my younger brother lost his favorite stuffed animal on vacation. It has been over 30 years and he still whines about it if the topic comes up. I think you managed to escape a life of misery. Now excuse me while I send a 5am text to my brother to ask him where his stuffy went. (This is how I show love - don't judge)
Terry Butler 3 years ago
😀😅😂🤣 Hilarious! BTW, I'm still whining because my mom gave away my stuffed bear without asking.
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#2
As a kid my whole extended family would go camping and my great grandfather would bring a big a*s salt shaker for every kid. When we arrived he would pass them out to each of us and tell us “If you get salt on a squirrel’s tail it throws off the squirrels balance and he can’t climb the trees anymore, that’s how you can catch one and keep it for a pet” cue all of us running around chasing squirrels with salt shakers trying to catch one of the little f*ckers for hours while the adults got to sit around drinking uninterrupted. Never got my pet squirrel.
Bob Stuart 3 years ago
When my friend Chief Kitpou was growing up "everyone knew" that if boys didn't rub the dust from butterfly wings on their chests, they would not develop good lungs. They chased those Butterflies for hours, but it worked!
#3
My older brother pranked me once. I had watched a kids' TV show (I think it was "The Electric Company") that featured a guest star who was a tap dancer.
My brother convinced me that tap dancers made their tapping sounds -- not with their feet -- but with their mouths.
I spent the next several weeks trying to tap dance with my mouth noises before my mom made me quit.
#4
That adults know what they're doing.
Rhyleigh Beer 3 years ago
When I was a little kid my mom whould tell me she had eyes on the back of her head, and knew what I was doing. Little did 4 year old me know was that I was suuuper loud. I also believed that my ears turned red when you lied, causing me to cup my hands over my ears when I did lie, and, surprisingly, this lasted until I was 8. 😳
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago
Used to think they had all their s**t together, got the jobs they wanted, and everything else was just to be unfair to me.
#5
On my 5th birthday, my older sister gave me a pack of gum. It was my first time trying gum, and I swallowed it. I told my sister, and she told me that because I swallowed the gum, I would die in 7 years. I was so sad. I never told my mom, because I didn't want to make her sad. So I lived the next 7 years of my life awaiting my death. My mom couldn't understand what my problem was on my 12th birthday. I was just sad. Finally, before bed, I told her how much I loved her and that I hoped she would miss me. She said "What are you talking about?" I told her that I was going to die before she woke up. My sister got yelled at, and my mom assured me I would not die before the morning. So yeah, I thought I was dying for 7 years.
Crease Almighty 3 years ago
Yeah my mum told my brother that if he swallowed gum he would die cos it would wrap around your intestines - he was chewing gum in the car one day and we went over a bump - he swallowed his gum and let out an ear splitting scream and mum nearly crashed… she spent 45mins calming him down cos he thought he was gonna die. Why would you tell kids this? *hi therapist.
Melanie Linehan 3 years ago
What is wrong with people. I thought it was awful that a sister would do this to a child, but a mother. WTH
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Maxwell Miner 3 years ago
Making a 5-year-old think their on death row for 7 years should deserve a lot more than getting yelled at like oh my god
Vicky Zar 3 years ago
I assume sister was not an adult herself, so she probably did not think about the consequences. At least not that the little one would be afraid of her their death for 7 years. Another kid maybe would have forgotten it. And the sister probably heard it herself from someone older than her.
Load More Replies... DogMom 3 years ago
I was told a very similar lie but not as bad. They told us it would stay in the stomach for 7 years
A Jones 3 years ago
Same here, until I took a lesson in how digestion works in grade school. and I was like, ah..then wtf.
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DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
I was told that swallowing gums led to stomach stones, liver stones and kidney stones 😑
Annamagelic 3 years ago
Right! I'm not surprised by a 5 year old believing this, but you think they would have at least questioned it before age 12.
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Shyla Clay 3 years ago
A woman in her sixties recently told me that if you don't break ramen noodles, they will wrap around your intestines and kill you. She believed it. After a bit, I gave up.
KariLovesHerKat 3 years ago
I wasn't allowed chewing gum so to stop md asking about it my aunt told me that it's made from rats tails
#6
"You won't get in trouble if you tell the truth"
Bullsh*t
Kay blue 3 years ago
I told my DD that you might still get in trouble if you tell me the truth, but it will be even worse if I find out about it later. It mostly worked.
Monic Krugell 3 years ago
Our rule with the kids are "If you tell me the truth, you might be in trouble, but we will always support you and back you and help you manage the trouble you are in, but if you lied to me, you can sort it out by yourself" (I work in law and this is kind of my philosophy with client's as well)
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Full English 3 years ago
This is almost the same as how we are programmed to believe you only need a Lawyer if you're guilty
John Baker 3 years ago
Who believes that? Guilty or innocent, only a fool talks to the cops without a lawyer.
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Gaya Knust 3 years ago
Oh, that's so true (no pun intended). My mum would say that "she'd rather hear a truth she didn't like than a lie" and I learned soon enough what a load of b******t that was.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago
My mom would always tell me to tell the truth and yes I would get in trouble. So I just learned to tell her what she wanted to hear, regardless if it was the truth or not.
Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
Heard that from my parents. Today, for me, to lie to me is a solid red line no one should cross. Unfortunately, Trump is setting a huge example that you can get away with it.
#7
My mom took me and my little brother Christmas shopping one time when I was four and he was three. She had to pick up a few items at a department store and we really wanted to hang out in the toys, so she said 'If you're not ready to go when i get back, I'm leaving without you.' Just a common mom warning. After we played for a while and looked for her for about 10-15 minutes (it was really busy) I assumed she left without us. She said she would, and I believed her. I told my brother she left and we just had to walk home. It was about 3 miles and so began our little version of 'There And Back Again.' We were fearless, walking along Highway 66 and collecting all sorts of roadside bits like a wooden soda bottle box, a discarded muffler, an umbrella, an old shoe and various interesting rocks. About 1/2 mile from our house my Mom found us, cut across three lanes of traffic with the car and stopped us. She ran out of the car crying and half livid. I thought it was nice of her to come get us since we had misbehaved, but didn't know why she was so upset. A number of people at the store parking lot and driving on the road had told her of the little kids hiking down the road with their Christmas treasure. It was 1965.
oli 3 years ago
On weekends we went to my grandparents who lived near a river and before I knew how to swim my parents had told me that if I got too close the catfish would catch me and eat me! Some lies can save lives...
Casey Burns 3 years ago
Depends on the country you live in. Some catfish in rivers could quite easily eat you as a child.
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Steve Ramaekers 3 years ago
Never tell your children you will leave them. Psych here. And don’t make empty threats either.
AnnaBanana 3 years ago
What a great story! Your poor mother must have been beside herself, but you littlies just thought you were doing the right thing. Glad you were all safe and well!
Marissa Taylor 3 years ago
Lol brave kids. Also when my mom told me thiit wasnt a lie lol . If we yhrew a tantrums (rarely did we were pretty quiet kids ) shed leave .
Nicoll Curtis 3 years ago
I "ran away" when I was 5. I got pissed at my mom so I packed my favorite stuffed animal, a couple of my favorite books, and my favorite outfit in my backpack. I even told my mom I was running away because I was mad at her. I guess she thought I was just going to sit in my "fort" I had built in the bushes in front of the house. Nope, I walked about 3 miles across town to my grandfather's house. I stopped and asked directions a couple times, but I remembered the two main landmarks (luckily, I just had to go down one road for ¾ mile, and then down the next road about 2 miles, and my Poppy's road was directly across from the church that my mom got married in), and I was so proud of myself for telling people that I wouldn't get in a car with them. (Though, honestly, small town, they probably knew who my mom or grandparents were and just wanted to make sure I was safe.) I got to my Poppy's and was so proud of myself. He had to call my mom because she had already called the cops.
Christina Hilby 3 years ago
When I was about 3 or 4 in the 90s my mom had to have several stores and the town mall shut down until they found me hiding somewhere
#8
When I was a kid my dad told me it cost 25 cents to change the radio station to keep me from f*cking with the radio in his car. I believed that until I was 14.
Rijkærd 3 years ago (edited)
Until 14?? dad=genius....kid= not even close.
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 3 years ago
I told my kids the hazard light button was the self destruct button 😂
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
"No! That's the button that will kill everyone!"
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De Gueb 3 years ago
At that age the Radio and Tv were firmly in my parents control. I wouldn't have dreamed of changing channel without asking first.
Tracey Reed 3 years ago
My dad told me that when the cops pulled you over they gave you tickets. To the theater. I use to cry every time I seen someone pulled over. I told my daughter and her friends that HONKS came in a can and that there were no refill cans made. So I'd honk n honk and she would say I'M GONNA TELL DADDY YOU'RE USING ALL HIS HONKS UP.
Vasana Phong 3 years ago
What tv show was it back then when the dad installed a pay phone in kitchen because the bill was so high?
onivdsrapowijap 3 years ago
If you do, PLEASE let him know the truth later on rather than let him believe it forever. Kids do NOT just "grow out of lies".
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phil blanque 3 years ago
Where would you put the quarter? In the cigarette lighter.? Come on, that is really dumb.
#9
When I was a child, I got upset after a button came off of my shirt. My mother told me not to worry and that if I placed the button under a rock in the yard, the button fairy would replace it with a quarter. I believed it, and to my mother's dismay, she discovered I had pulled the buttons off of every shirt in my closet. To this day, 40 years later, shirt buttons can still be found under random rocks in my parents' backyard.
KWitt 3 years ago
My niece started pulling out her teeth after her second tooth fairy visit. 🧚♂️ 😆
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That'sEndorable 3 years ago
I had a cousin who was pulling out molars to get money from the tooth fairy.
Janet Graham 3 years ago
What a dumb thing to tell a kid. Just teach him/her how to sew on a button!
Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago
My little dog would literally eat all the buttons off my silk shirts and poop them out eventually.
#10
Sometimes when we asked for McDonalds my dad would say no but turn in anyway and say the car was doing it by itself. I believed him every time and thought the car was just my homie.
Courtney Lunsford 3 years ago
My husbands car likes to wiggle back and forth as we get on a private road back and forth. He'll yell "Oh no car! Quit being crazy!" My stepson thinks it's hilarious!
Ian Taggart 3 years ago
Ordinarily, I HATE parents who lie to their kids, but I'm all for childish pranks.
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
This feels like an antithesis to the "one black coffee" story from John Mulaney. (The one where he and his siblings would chant "McDonald's! McDonald's! McDonald's!" until their dad finally pulled into McDonald's, and then he'd just order one black coffee.)
#11
When I was a kid I asked my dad if reading enough books really could give you Telekinesis... (Matilda)
He said yes. I spent many years after that thinking I just wasn't doing enough.
Kanuli 3 years ago
I would go scientific. I can’t tell if it does. Since it never did as far as we know. But we can also not know if it might not happen. The point with Matilda is brought into various forms in various literature and stories. Either that a race has this ability due to highly evolved brain. Or achieve this or similar after transcendence. Also that our brain only uses this small fraction of potential capacity. And what would be possible if we used more? And how to broaden your horizons than by reading/thinking? Likely? Maybe not. Impossible? Maybe not.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
My mother used to complain that she regretted teaching us to read. We were all reading by 4, and rather than doing chores when we were older, we would be hiding somewhere reading.
Austin Hicks 3 years ago
Proof that books don't make you smarter, otherwise you wouldn't have spent years believing something so dumb
onivdsrapowijap 3 years ago
How would the kid realize that it's a lie? The kid had NO REASON to ever think that reading wouldn't give them superpowers. If you're told a reasonable enough lie as a little kid, you will not just realize the truth.
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#12
My sister told me that if you count all the stones of Stonehenge you will die. I still don't know how many stones there are in Stonehenge.
Lisa Shaw 3 years ago
The current accepted total of stones remaining at Stonehenge is actually 83.
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Andrew Dunford 3 years ago
There are 83 stones at the Stonehenge site! You can thank me later!
Will Young 3 years ago (edited)
Only 52 left tho. There were 83 but now only 52
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gellert gridlewald 3 years ago
google says "Today, only 52 of the original ~80 sarsen stones remain at the monument. These include all 15 stones forming the central Trilithon Horseshoe, 33 of the 60 uprights and lintels from the outer Sarsen Circle, plus the peripheral Heel Stone, Slaughter Stone, and two of the four original Station Stones."
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Thomas E S Thomas 3 years ago
Today, only 52 of the original ~80 sarsen stones remain at the monument. These include all 15 stones forming the central Trilithon Horseshoe, 33 of the 60 uprights and lintels from the outer Sarsen Circle, plus the peripheral Heel Stone, Slaughter Stone, and two of the four original Station Stones.
Catherine Stevens 3 years ago
ok so for some reason whenever i try to count them my cat comes over and bops me. coincidence? i think not!
Taylor Yingling 3 years ago
Now we are all scared to count them. I’m just gonna search it up . . . roughly 100.
#13
I could not understand how all the deaths scenes in war movies seemed so realistic. So, I asked one of my older brothers how they did it. He proceeded to tell me that they empty out state prisons in the area the movie is being made, dress them up and give them guns and tell them that if they survive the filming then they get to leave jail after. I was told that at around 7 and I believed it till I was around 10.
Serial pacifist 3 years ago
My son asked me where his great-grandmother was. I told him she had passed away years earlier. He said: "Who shot her?" Only then did I realize how exposed to all this violence crap children are and that there is almost nothing you can do about it, even in cartoons.
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Man I'm glad auto fill knew Schwarzenegger)
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Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
I think a lot of us (myself included, even though I didn't watch many movies with deaths when I was younger) thought that if a person died in a movie, they actually died in real life. It could get pretty confusing when you saw an actor in a movie even after you'd already seen a different one where they died.
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
Wow sounds like a action pack movie. Actually like dirty dozen the movie.
Nicoll Curtis 3 years ago
My brother thought that the actors really died in movies. He was always really confused when he saw an actor in another, newer movie, so me an my next oldest brother told him it was really the actor's clone. My brother went to school talking about actors and clones and all kinds of stuff, so my mom got a call, and we got in trouble lol.
#14
If you swallowed the black watermelon seeds a watermelon would grow in your belly.
Thomas E S Thomas 3 years ago
A kid in my mom's daycare stuck a pumpkin seed in his nose at Halloween time. The pumpkin seed found the nice warm nasal cavity to be a perfect place to germinate. Apparently it grew for over a month, and only was discovered when it started to rot. The doctors pulled out a vine that was eight inches long.
UncleRussian 3 years ago
I never believed that cauz nobody ever told me this to be honest. I usually always separate the seeds in my mouth and accumulate them so that I can shoot them out like a machine gun 😂 😂
Daria B 3 years ago (edited)
You don't need to be told this to believe it, actually. Just be a smart kid with a wide fantasy and some anxiety.... u.u
Load More Replies... Data1001 3 years ago
After my very first inquiry into how babies were made, my dad said that he gave his seed to my mom, and that a baby then grew inside her -- and that was about all the detail he gave. So in my mind, I imagined it as a seed from a watermelon that he pulled from the watermelon slice, and gave to her to swallow. I think I probably thought if I did that to a girl, she'd start growing a baby, too. Thankfully I had actual sex ed classes as a pre-teen and put that theory to rest!
Vinita Talaulikar 3 years ago
We were told for many such fruits with seeds - grapes, apple, watermelon, custard apples, pears, orange, chikku, lemons.
#15
My dad told me that the reason why police officers spend so much time at donut shops is because the shop owners actually need them there to shoot the holes in the pastries to provide them with the classic donut shape. I found out this was a lie when my dad caught me trying to get behind the counter at Dunkin Donuts one time because I “wanted to see the shooting.”
Hypoxia Smurf 3 years ago
Our dad told us not to eat tapioca pudding because the tapioca roots were chewed by Brazilian women before being exported for pudding. Yikes.
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
This reminds me of how my mom doesn't like to eat applesauce because she was told that it was created after a giant chewed up apples and then spat them out.
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#16
The ice cream van played music to let everyone know he was out of ice cream.
Rissie 3 years ago
Because in a world with so many impulses and companies trying to sell s**t to kids they want to be in control of the ice cream consumption. The sound is a trick and people are like Pavlov's dogs.
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Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I knew better since my dad was a kid at heart and couldn't wait to take us down to get us and himself a treat.
#17
I’m black and my dad is very very light skinned, like to the point where he’s actually pale. When I was probably about 5 or so I asked why he was so much brighter than my mom and he told me a bucket of white paint fell on him one day and that’s how it happened. He also had me convinced that my older sister went into a hat everyday, so I’d peer into a beanie trying to find her when I wanted to play. She was at school. I was probably like 3 when I thought she was hanging out inside a hat for a few hours everyday. My kindergarten best friend also convinced me she used to hang out with dinosaurs and rode around on them like a horse. Aaaand another friend in 1st grade convinced me she had short hair because it retracted into her head everyday because of the sun. Those are probably the most absurd lies I can remember but I’m sure there are a million more cause I was a ridiculously gullible kid.
A.J Milne 3 years ago
I too used to be a gullible kid, but now I have trust issues thanks to the lies I was told by my "friends",
Parthania Dawson 3 years ago
I think I came out of the womb with trust issues. Other kids were always suspect.
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Linda Taubenreuther 3 years ago
I had my gullible classmates totally convinced that an elf lived in my locker. I'd always knock on the door to warn him to disappear before I opened it. Kids would crowd around to try and get a glimpse before he vanished.
Jessica Gunn 3 years ago
Well I actually DID try and look up the word Gullible in the dictionary, after being told it wasn't there....
BasedWang 3 years ago
My bestfriend in 1st grade saw the same imaginary person that used to be kinda demonic and perch at the top right corner of my teachers chalkboard. I asked if he seen anything in class that others don't and he pointed at the EXACT spot and said "him"........ Not really sure if either one of us was f*****g with the other lmao
That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 3 years ago
The one about the sister in the hat is both hilarious and brilliant 😂😂
Eva Vinklarkova 3 years ago
I sort of don’t understand why the parents didn’t tell the kid about sister being in school. I mean, nothing embarrassing about school, right?
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Norah Pines 3 years ago
Man. I was the kid who let kids cut in line in front of me if they told me they'd give me $50 or $100 the next day. I'm not kidding when I say they probably owe me $1k between the ~3 of the kids who did that.
Noor Ul-ain 3 years ago
So was I. My mum told me when the oven timer beeped, it would blow up. When it started beeping I went into a panic and screamed for everyone to get out. Then, I was met with everyone laughing at me. Was very nice : )
Elizabeth VanDyke 3 years ago
My friend thought that spaghetti grew on a spaghetti ranch in Italy. We were in high school!!
Chamber Laine 3 years ago
When I was 3 or 4 years old my older brother told me that if someone spits in your hair that it will never ever wash out & would eventually spread across the whole head. He then spit in my hair & I absolutely flipped my 💩.
#18
When my sister and I were kids, our mom lied and told us that she was a Grammy nominated and winning singer. She said that all of the trophies were in our attic, knowing that neither of us would ever go in and check for them. My sister and I bragged to all of our friends about it for years, only to discover that our mom isn't a very good singer at all... We've held this lie over her head for nearly 20 years now, so this past Christmas, we gifted her with a fake Grammy that has her name engraved and her favorite music category citing her as the winner of it. She laughed until she cried
Phoenix CP 3 years ago
i love that your name seems like the pronouns are menacing. beware the she/her
Load More Replies... Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
"Not being a good singer" and "receiving a Grammy award" do not exlude each other, do they?
Taylor Yingling 3 years ago
My dad says he is a member of Boys II Men. Have you ever heard of a Brian Yingling on Boys II men? Yea, ummmm, no.
K. Anderson 3 years ago
My mom used to say we had another sibling named Justin. No explanation as to where he was
phil blanque 3 years ago
Yeah...a Momma that lies....about this and whatever else. So comforting.
#19
I was told by my dad, when I was around 8-9, that 'The people at the sewerage plant have been examining your poop, and need you to eat more fiber'.
Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
Just to let you know, they do test the influent at your local sewage works. Two sorts of testing, one to ensure the correct balance of sewage / microorganisms is in place so that it’ll break down effectively through the works and one that’s a bit more in depth but rarer, tests done for anti-inflammatory meds, HRT, various industrial chemicals and a swathe of other chemicals / pharmaceuticals. All done to see how much is making it through into the water system. How do I know? I ran teams that took samples throughout the U.K. that we analysed and reported on, we collected over 57,000 samples over a two year period. PS every works has its own unique aroma, I could be blindfolded and dropped at a random site and could tell you where I was, a useful skill I’m sure you’ll agree 😂 PPS no we didn’t test for fibre / fiber 😀
Merghan Lashay 3 years ago
My grandma moved to Florida from Texas and they have a huge s**t plant. Grandma thought it was a pool/swimming area and demanded we go swim. Until dad informed her she would be the only swimmer but there's plenty of floaters
#20
I was 7 years old. One of my teachers wanted us to write a letter to a family member or friend or someone. I wrote the letter. Got the envelope. Got the stamp. My mom had worked at the county jail at the time and she suggested I write one of the inmates who never got mail. So I did. I wrote something along the lines of "I'm sorry you're arrested but I hope you get out." I even signed it with my 7 year old signature. While I was writing the letter my mom had left to get to the store. I asked my older brother what our address was because I needed to put a return address. He said: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC 20500. For those that dont know, that's the address to The White House. I wrote it on the letter and put it with the mail my mom was sending out. Mind you, I grew up in Michigan and never left the state but I wasn't smart. Years later I went to pick my mom up from work and one of the CO's called me Mr. President and I asked why he said that. He mentioned the letter I wrote years prior and how it was a joke in the jail any time my mom mentioned me.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
Probably a good idea to put a different address on it anyway.
Ian Taggart 3 years ago (edited)
Depends on what he was in for, but you're probably right.
Load More Replies... Phoenix CP 3 years ago
one year in 3rd grade a teacher was going to florida so she'd see all the Disney characters, so we wrote letters to them and i wrote to minnie mouse and we even got responses. i had that letter on my wall up until we moved out, for around 7 years or so. it's still somewhere in the boxes of pictures today, those teachers were fantastic.
#21
That Leprechauns were real. I spent many hours and several iterations, designing traps to try and catch one. Because if you caught one, you would get his pot of gold. A few times I tried, I got a piece of gold, and thats what kept the magic going. Turns out my dad was painting rocks with gold paint and sneaking them into my traps at night. It is actually a really sweet memory as a kid, but it fell apart when I started asking other kids, how their traps were going, and no one knew what I was talking about.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
i had that "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" idea in my head. one summer, i set up the garden hose on mist and put it in the sunshine so it would make a rainbow, and dug holes in the lawn. parents not impressed.
just another teen 3 years ago
i found a hole in our back yard stuffed it with dirt in hopes to sufficate the leprechaun so i could kill it and take its gold
Kelly 3 years ago
Made a leprechaun trap with my daughter for st Patrick's day, she was adamant she was going to catch one, what she got was a letter from the "leprechaun" saying haha better luck next year and all the "gold" missing. Her reaction was great she stomped around the house saying she is making a leprechaun death trap next time.
Hugh Willie Mungous 3 years ago
Nobody in Ireland believes in leprechauns . . . . but many, many people (especially rural folk) believe in fairies even to this day. Note - the fairies are not particularly benign and you most definitely would not want to upset them. There are many "fairy-rings" in Ireland which are very old circular clumps of trees or large-ish bushes (e.g hawthorns) which even the non-believers are wary of. Besides Iceland (where similar but even stronger beliefs in elves and gnomes and huldufólk exist) I'd say Ireland holds such ancient beliefs more than any European country.
#22
You know how Barbie feet are on tippy toes so they are shaped to fit into a high heel shoe? Well when I was a kid, I thought that when girls grew up into women that their feet would be shaped like that. Despite the fact that I lived in a house with 4 grown women, none of whom had Barbie feet.
Cyndi Hafele 3 years ago
Once upon a time there were bras that made women's breasts look pointy. I thought women's breasts actually looked like that.
Animalsrgreat 3 years ago
I thought women wore heels because the skin on their heels grew like that, and they were hollow, so your actual heel would fit into your shoe. Like boobs on your feet.
Linda Taubenreuther 3 years ago
I had a similar concern about Barbie's boobs. I asked my mom how women could lie comfortably on their stomachs with those things in the way. She managed to keep a straight face while telling me real human boobs squashed in like pillows.
13 3 years ago
The beach is awesome for lying on your stomach with big boobies. Just dig boobie shaped holes et voila.
Load More Replies... Eb 3 years ago
Tragically a lot of women end up doing this to their own feet. If you're one of those girls who likes to tell people she can run in stilettos, it's happening. One of the weirdest things about mid-life is thinking you know what the first signs of ageing are after years of ads and beauty features, then one day you look down and you've got someone else's feet.
Jaqi Hegland 3 years ago
My martial arts teacher said Barbie's secretly a martial artist. That's the foot position you want for a front kick - you kick with the ball of your foot and pull the toes pulled back out of the way.
#23
Eating too much sugar will glue my a*s cheeks together.
thanks mom
Cyndi Hafele 3 years ago
Eating sugar would give me worms and eating standing up would make my feet big.
#24
My mother once said to me when I was about 2 years old “you have a little Indian in you” by which she meant, I have some Native American ancestry. Well my a*s had just seen The Indian in the Cupboard so I thought there was literally a tiny man that lived in my body.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
Just like the tiny man who licks all the plates inside the dishwasher to clean them
Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago
My 2 dogs lick them clean before going into the machine....
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Rose Button 🇺🇦 3 years ago
When I was little I imagined (I don't think I actually believed it) that a mariachi band of crikets played music in the radio and then they came out at night and chirped. I also liked to imagine a concert with diffrent artists, each representing a diffrent genre. Like when a rock song came on, I imaged the rock persona preforming. I also liked to imagine a movie for the Beach Boys music, complete with a talking lighthouse, surfboard, and romance between a human and seagull.
C Lawson 3 years ago
Or the tiny man in the vending machine that kicks the sodas down for you
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When I was three, I wanted to know how the doorbell worked. Mom told me the button tickled the little man (inside)s tummy. Next day, she caught me pouring milk on the doorbell, because I didn't want the little man to be thirsty.
Jingleheimer 3 years ago
You have a magic school bus in there, too. Good thing you don't need chemo.
#25
Well… My grandpa and i went to forest when i was around 12years old and one of my cousin came with us too. He was 16 that time and told me that a creature lives in the woods which has male and female genital organs, when it is night time it gets out and f*cks whatever living thing he grabs. Ofc i didn’t believe my cousin i am not that dumb but when my grandpa seconds him i cried like a little baby to go home. RIP Grandpa you crazy old f*ck.
glowworm2 3 years ago
That's honestly a horrible story to tell to a 12 year old, or any one, regardless of age.
Yort 3 years ago
Seriously wtf, telling a kid that there a rape monster living in the woods?? Why do people think that kind of thing is funny?
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Thomas E S Thomas 3 years ago
Snails and slugs have both male and female reproductive organs and can even fertilize themselves.
#26
As a kid I had a strangulated hernia, which left me with one testicle. My dad told me if I ever had kids they would be all boys or all girls cos each testicle is for each sex. Believed it for years.
Guy Incognito 3 years ago
I believe hundreds of years ago some men would cut off a testicle to have a son because it was believed that one was for boys and one was for girls
#27
That the hazard button in a car would blow the car up.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
Blow up the car? Pssht....It springs out the driver seat, you doofus!
Monic Krugell 3 years ago
Just imagine your poor kids reaction when you reach for the hazard button in a sudden emergency
David Naessens 3 years ago
Or if you ask my kids it's the button to go to warp speed. We'd do a safety checklist (seat belts fastened,, tray tables in the upright and locked position, etc) and thenI'd push the button when we'd be getting up to speed on the highway or the like.
MissMePhoenix 3 years ago (edited)
On the flip-side, I once had a friend that was "horn happy" and would honk the horn. CONSTANTLY (sometimes for no reason at all) so one day i told her if she did that too much the airbag would deploy and bust her in the face...she believed it for years until we were both riding with another friend who happened to honk the horn for an extended period of time and she freaked out. He broke the news to her and i broke from laughing so hard 😆
#28
The button on your armrest on airplanes is the eject button.
I found out it reclines your seat embarrassingly late.
troufaki13 3 years ago
Why do all parents say the same lies? Are they given the same manual when they leave the maternity hospital or something?
Rijkærd 3 years ago
They were once kids before they became adults...so they know what works...
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Zella hawk 3 years ago
Yes we have a manual & we meet on Thursdays after are kids are in bed so we can share new lies to use 😉
#29
ATM gives free money.
human? 3 years ago
I used to think the cash out thing gave you free money and adults were too responsible to abuse it
Steve Fischer 3 years ago
When I was small and my mom said she didn't have any money I said you have plenty of checks so you must have some
Rose Button 🇺🇦 3 years ago
I thought that they were mini banks. They kinda are, but I though you were getting and then paying interest. Like, you had to come back later.
phil blanque 3 years ago
Damn...the only one who gives you free money is the Nigerian princess! You be a sucker...I gonna be rich.
#30
That our entire house was covered by cork-sized security cameras and that my parents could see my every move.
(T)reacherou(S) 3 years ago
That would be awful to think, imagine beliving that you have absolutly no privacy!
Kai David 3 years ago
I trained truck drivers. One driver asked what the red light was on the ceiling. I told him it was a camera so dispatch can watch us 24/7. A uear or so later at a terminal, some drivers were joking about some paranoid driver who thinks a red light is a camera watching him. I busted out laughing. I told them it was me. Poor kid.
Ella Saylor 3 years ago
My parents tell me this, I am a teenage girl and the issue is I'm not too sure if it's true or not. I have extreme anxiety and feel as though I have no privacy and have even gone to the point of covering myself with a blanket while changing in my room with the door locked, don't do this to your kids, they will resent you
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
I have told my kids this once.......and I pointed to the tv lol at the little dot that changes colors so they would behave and they would actually tell the truth.
#31
That everyone in our town had some connection to my mum. She told me everyone knew who she was and was looking out, so any inappropriate behaviour, actions, etc would eventually get back to her. I didn't do anything ever for fear her contacts would tell her. Yes, I went crazy once I moved out of home. Realizing I wasn’t actually being observed was too delicious, I over-did all the things I’d missed out on. I indulged in every vice. Yes, I’m now an insecure, anxious, perfectionistic, insomniac, surprise!
Helen Haley 3 years ago
My mom told me this as well, only it was a small town, so it was true. I too am now an insecure, anxious perfectionist with insomnia. Small world
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
I'm paranoid of my door being opened by my parents because almost every time its because im in trouble
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
This was true for my children. I live in a small community and worked in the most popular home cooking type restaurant here.. Everytime someone saw my children, they would tell me all about it. So glad I had pretty good kids. The only "bad" report I ever got was when my oldest daughter was taking up for her older autistic brother who was being tortured by a bully. I was proud of her for doing so. She put him in his place but there was no fight involved.
#32
I once thought academic scholarships were only given to dumb students so that some of them could still attend college. I even told my older brother that he was so stupid, he had to get scholarships to go to college. He went to the Ivy League.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
I wish this logic actually applied irl; I'd have scholarships to EVERY damn good college
#33
I have three that were really dumb: 1. My older brother told me that if you put your Pokémon cards in the microwave then they become real. I started a fire doing this and ruined cards that would now be worth a lot of money. My older brother told me that aliens lived in my shoes (I had the ones that would glow up when you walked). I got scared and never wore them again. My older brother told me that if I wrote down a wish on a kite and flew it up high enough - the ink on the kite would disappear and my wish would come true. I spend hours trying to make this happen.
James Nall 3 years ago
You mean they're for being a d!ck? DON'T LIE TO KIDS, DAMM!T
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Flash Henry 3 years ago
Half the fun of having younger siblings is getting them to believe your wild stories.
#34
That guacamole was ground up guaca-moles... Dads are great lol
Louise B 3 years ago
Hmmm, yes my friend told me that a local take-away got busted for using cat meat in the food. They got caught because cats (including 2 of her own) were going missing at an alarming rate. The authorities investigated and found a skip in their back yard; full to the brim with cat paws (the ickle beans) I believed this and never questioned it. It was only when I was at University (!!!) years later that another friend pointed out just how big a skip is, and how tiny her cat's dainty little paws are. It would take thousands of cats. It just didn't add up. I realised that day, I am not the sharpest tool in the box. Cringe. My friend loves to remind me of this 😑
#35
The teachers in my school told us if you pull the fire alarm, ink shoots out on your hands that doesn't wash off for a few days so they know who pulled it. I was 26 when I found out its all a lie.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
How I wish my teachers said the same to us before we were all screaming FIRE in the morning assembly, all 2000 kids, because, as it turned out, some doofus could not bear standing for 15 mins and found a way to end the assembly. They never found out who did it.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
I once saw an ad for a fire alarm that held the hand of the one who pulled it to people wouldnt pull them as a prank and only the firefighters could unlock it. Wtf.
#36
I used to think that saliva or mouth taste (something like that, I’m not sure) would transfer through the water of water fountains. I was young, in 1st or 2nd grade, so whenever I’d go to get a drink I’d let it run for a few seconds before I actually drank anything. Especially when a kid I disliked drank before me. Funniest part is, if my crush at the time had just taken a drink from the fountain before me, I’d drink right away. I have no idea why or how I started believing this.
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I had a similar concern about bathroom faucets, to the extent I wouldn't (and still won't) drink water from them.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
That's probably wise. The amount of fecal material that floats around a bathroom is well known.
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My mum told me to run the water from a bubbler for a little while to wash the germs away. And not to put my mouth over it.
#37
Dad told us his dried apricots were monkey ears so we wouldn’t eat them.
#38
Y’all, this made me so mad. I’m from central Kentucky, and growing up we would always see tons of Ohio license plates on the road. So I asked why that was. My father proceeded to tell me that Ohio had a state law that was basically a curfew. Once Ohio residents leave the state, for any reason, they have a limited amount of time to return. If they don’t make it back, they can’t reenter the state. (He told me they could return after a long period of time, but I can’t remember how long that was, something like months or years) So the Ohio drivers on the road were vagabonds, forever driving the surrounding states until they could go home. He told it so well, and with such conviction, that I believed it until I repeated it to friends in high school and finally realized what a dumba*s I was.
Dave Easton 3 years ago
Me too I live in the Northeast Ohio it's always cold and cloudy and dreary I'd love to move to don't know why I don't though
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My grandmother told me that pinching gave cancer. I got pinched once at recess and yelled at the person because I thought they were going to give me cancer.
Jude Macneil 3 years ago
But don’t Grandmothers always pinch cheeks? Seems a bit contradicting.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
None of my Nan's pinched cheeks, is it really a common thing?
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My father doesn’t cook almost anything, except french fries. The thing is he really makes great french fries, the best I’ve eaten. When I was around 7 or 8 he made me believe his secret ingredient was the oil he fried them in, which was made from kangaroo poop. He made it believable, because I recently heard about that coffee that the monkey-things eat then they sh*t it out. Dad went on to explain how he owned a kangaroo farm in Australia, the kangaroos being bred for the sole purpose of sh*tting, just like this coffee. The farm had a dozen employees which would process the poop into oil, which they would proceed to send all the way to Romania, just for him to make french fries. I don’t remember for how long I believed him.
#41
That if you sit to close to the TV or computer screen you'll go blind. I was told that during the summer of 5th grade, then got glasses in 6th grade. All I heard was a "told you.." as i tried on my first pair of glasses and was told that my sister (1 yr younger) wont need glasses becuase she listened. She got her glasses less than a year later.
James Nall 3 years ago
There is some truth to this. Electronic screens give off a lot of blue light, which is bad for vision. Has nothing to do with proximity, tho
Monday 3 years ago
There's still debate about that. Some studies claim it does permanent damage, others claim it just tires your eyes out. It's hard to get a clear conclusion because the damage observed in those first studies is "age-related macular degeneration" ...so there's debate on whether or not the person would have had vision loss regardless of blue light exposure.
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Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
Yes, but because it's 3D, you actually focus your eyes on things that are further away, and move, so you keep adjusting focus. Just like in real life. However on a monitor, you keep the same focus distance all the time, which is what makes it bad.
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There is a bit of truth to this, sitting close makes your eyes focus on the same point all the time after a while this can cause muscles that control the focus to loose the ability to focus. It's worse in a dark room. Same a not flexing your arm for a long while can cause lose of muscle. Anyone who as broken an arm will know
#42
One time I was at my dad's (parents separated) and him and a friend were hanging outside sipping beers and smoking cigarettes while I was decapitating dandelions with my sweet a*s plastic ninja sword. My dad never let me have soda when I was a kid. His friend left and my dad went inside to do dishes. I saw a 7up can on the deck table and sprinted towards and and took a huge swig. Turns out they had been asking and putting their cig butts in there. I run inside and throw up and my dad goes what happened what happened?! I lied and said nothing but he figured it out. So, he told me all the soda he buys tastes like that even if they are unopened. I believed him for a few years til I was like 9.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
Hahaha, been there, done that. Except my parents didn't follow it up with a lie. They just laughed. Drinking an ash tray is absolutely revolting. Do not recommend lol.
Summer Mason 3 years ago
At the same time....he probably helped your health as an adult. I didn't drink alot of soda as a kid. My kids don't either. It's carbonated sugar water.
#43
As a kid, I thought that girls get pregnant from kissing. Yes, 6 yo me was very smart.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
One of my brothers thought babies came from bums, mind you he too was about 6.
James Nall 3 years ago
Close, just go 'round the corner to find the baby dispenser.
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Scarlett 3 years ago
I thought that babies came out of your stomach. Like, the mom literally threw up a baby. I was a very smart child.
Monday 3 years ago
I thought they came out of your bellybutton for a year or two.
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i can't remember the age, but there was definitely a time when i was confused by the way people arranged themselves in sex scenes in the movies because i thought vaginas were on the front like penises. just made sense, you know. i figured you just press up against eachother and sort of dock.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
My mom told me babies come from eggs. Technically not a lie. I had a very hard time eating eggs for a long time because I thought I was really eating babies. Turns out I was right, chicken babies.
Ham Explosion 3 years ago
I used to think women pooped them out like eggs from a chicken. Still believing that I asked (my mom was pregnant with my sister) "What if the baby comes out brown.".
Sawyer Kidder 3 years ago
I used to think babies were born from your belly button. Then my best friend in kindergarten told me how and where babies were born from. I was not thrilled.
#44
I always believed the whole “they went to a farm” about dogs. I knew my boy would love running around a big paddock, meanwhile he’s laying under one :’(
Sinclair13 3 years ago
I had a duck, when I was 2, that went to a farm. When I was 31 I was talking to my dad about the duck and he told me he gave it to my pediatrician so he coukd eat it. 31. I was devastated. I loved that duck and never thought anything was wierd about the farm story until I thought about it.
Casey Burns 3 years ago
He was probably a bad duck and got caught selling quack.
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Anonymous 3 years ago
My parents sent our dog to a farm because she wouldn't stop chasing cars and they thought she'd get run over. Turns out they really did send her to a sheep farm and she was taught to herd sheep. The guy who got her brought her with him when he came to see my parents. That's how I found out it was true.
Summer Mason 3 years ago
They are all running on a big farm up in the hevens waiting for us to come play ball.
#45
That the draining sound of the water in the bathtub was a monster that would suck you in as well. A lie made to get me out of the bath.
Mattewis88 3 years ago
Yup, our tub never had a chain to pull the plug out by. I made my mom put one on because there was no way Im sticking my hand in there.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
My youngest daughter would flip out if the drain plug was pull out before she got out. It took me a while to figure out why. Afterwards though, I always go her out first. So sad when children have bad anxiety of things such as this. Guess that's the reason I chose to be honest with my children.
DragonsCrushesCatsMe 3 years ago
I didn't want to put my feet or my hands near the drain because my mom told me about this girl named Alice that was so skinny (I was skinny at the time) that she went down the drain. Scared me to heck.
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
I thinks some kids think this anyway and some animals cause one of my kids freaked out about it when they where smaller.
#46
My Grandad would tell me that the buttons/switches to turn on the interior lights in his car where actually buttons for ejector seats. I would be scared to go anywhere near them incase I accidentally yeeted myself out of his Ford Focus. He was a funny dude.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Shadow_TheArtistDemon 3 years ago
…eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
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#47
That everybody gets a house once they hit 18 or has a kid, whichever happens first. It wasn’t a lie that I was told, just something I believed was true, but nobody tried to correct me.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
sounds awful to me. i owned a house for a while and it was way more space and upkeep than i wanted to deal with. i swear, half the house was just for keeping the things i needed to have to maintain the house. always felt stupid to me.
#48
That women's periods stop in water to avoid sharks smelling it.
Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
Yeah, I've had friends go swimming while on their periods, because periods stop in water. They don't. They really, really don't. It was disgusting.
Strawberry Pizza 3 years ago
well period blood technically isn't blood per se but I can see why they believed it
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
There is still blood in period blood, it's just more concentrated (approx less than 40%), the rest is uteral lining tissue.
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#49
Walt disney invented colour. watching a black and white show I thought everyone from the 50's and lower had lived in black and white. I asked my father "who invented colour?" Dad looked at me dead serious and said "walt disney" I believed it far to long.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I used to think the world was black and white until color was invented. Not sure why I believed this.
Guy Incognito 3 years ago
That's what technicolor wants you to believe. All paintings were updated to color in the 1935 so be compliant with color vision.
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#50
One time when I was 5-6 I asked my brother how French fries where made And he told me: “they inject mashed potatoes into the skins of the fries with a syringe”. I believed that until I saw my mom cooking home fries for breakfast one morning when I was 8.
Summer Mason 3 years ago
Home fries. Are Hash browns. We just word them differently.
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#51
My older sister told me that brown cows made chocolate milk, and I believed that for years. She also told me that if you run over the cord of the vacuum cleaner it would electrocute you and you’d die. I think this is why I hate vacuuming.
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
I use to think this when I was really little. My kids thought this to about the cows anyway.
#52
A college nearby has a cougar as its mascot and they sell cougar cheese. It's delicious. My uncles told me long ago that it's made from the milk of cougars. Made sense to me. But, then I got older (early 20s) and I saw a can of that cougar gold and wondered how they milked the cougars. And, it hit me like a ton of bricks. You can't just have a cougar milk farm with angry cougars hooked up to milking machines. It just isn't going to fly. I got a chuckle out of the image and realized that I was a grown man who believed that they were milking cougars down at the college and turning it into cheese.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
looked it up because i was confused by "can of that cougar gold". it's a regular cheddar cheese that they put in cans for some reason. Anybody know why they do that?
#53
My dad told me he didn't have a middle name because his parents couldn't afford one. I believed this for a shockingly long time. I had no reason to doubt him and I knew his family was poor...
#54
I was hiking with my family once when I was about 8 or 9. We were walking along a river when my pops picked up a rock and said, "You know, in the center of every stone, there's a tiny drop of water. And if you squeeze hard enough, you can get it to come out." This guy had me literally trying to squeeze water from a stone the entire hike back to the car.
Flash Henry 3 years ago
My cousin once told me that some rocks have diamonds in the middle. I spent a few days outside smashing rocks with a hammer before my parents were like wtf are you doing.
#55
That you could get a ticket for having the light on in your car while driving.
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
So many people believed this that I think it must have been true at some stage.
Summer Mason 3 years ago
S**t I'm almost 36 and I still believe it. Idk why.
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Misstaken138 3 years ago
I believed it too. I only found out it wasn't true because my husband turned the light on in the car and I told him to turn it off before I get a ticket. He had a good laugh and told me my parents straight up lied about it being illegal. Lol
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I was also told this. Every time someone would turn the light on I would get scared to death of being given a ticket.
Marty Sunderland 3 years ago
It will interfere with your night vision, whether it's a ticketable offense or not is another question.
Veronica Connelly 3 years ago
This isn't true? Lmfao holy s**t dude I'm f*****g 30 and just now finding out...I wanna sarcastically say gee THANKS mom but I think she honestly thinks it to be true from what my grandpa probably told her! What a trip! Screenshotting this and sending it to her for sure!!!!
Corey Beth 3 years ago
I'm 39 and also just finding this out so don't feel bad.
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#56
You can't leave the house after dark because the chupacabra outside will eat you.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
Same here; except it's witches who'll take control of your bodies 🙂
#57
When I was 6 my parents told me that when you flush from an airplane toilet, the waste gets dumped mid air into the ocean. I believed that and told all my friends. Parents then told me they were joking and I became the class fool.
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
Someone told me that switching the room lights on or off cost 2 cents extra on your electric bill. For awhile, every time my mom or dad made me angry, I flipped the switch a few dozen times.
Ga Di 3 years ago
many people believe this to be true - but in commercial aviation this was -in contrary to trains-never done
Ogre Juan 3 years ago
There Have Been "Blue Water" Ice Falls. Accident Or On Purpose IDK True The Trains
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#58
That my father wrote the count of Monte cristo... He had started the book and loved it so much he would read a part, and then recite[retell] it to me as if he was the one who had come up with it.. When he reached the point that he was at in the book, he would say to be continued while I whined for the rest. This lasted a week and a 1/2.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I read the same books to my 3 year old grandson so often that I have them memorized them. He fuses at me for not looking at the pages.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Sort of similar to the author William Goldman. His father read it to him from the original version from his native country. He loved the book and gave his son a copy for his 13th birthday and the son couldn't understand why he liked it. So Goldman re-read it himself and found out his father had been paraphrasing the whole thing because there were endless pages of boring long-winded explanations etc. This led Goldman to writing his own adaptation.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago (edited)
The book was the Princess Bride, for those of you who don't know. And it was his son's 10th birthday. And his father read the English version, not the Florinese one.
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Once, this guy on my bus in first grade told me and my friend that leprechauns are real. I didn't believe him. He then told us that HE was a leprechaun, and then proceeded to give us a long and detailed story of how he gets away with being one. I didn't believe it at first, but he was such a good storyteller that in the end I was convinced that he truly was a leprechaun.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My brother and I called our little sister a chicken once and forgot about it. She found all this 'proof' that she was a chicken in human form and believed it for years :) One of the things that she considered proof was that she never got brain-freeze, but did get neck-freeze(?)...
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
I grew up believing that elected politicians were working to make everyone’s life better. Then trump came along, and I really grew up !
#60
When I was a little fellow my parents used to told me when you smoke you'll die instantaneously. Unfortunately they forgot this at a campfire organized by our former neighborhood and smoked a cig. I remember I was desperately trying to stop them and cried all the time, because I thought they're both about to die.
Summer Mason 3 years ago
Okay so we had dare (this is your brain on drugs early 90s bs) in school as kids. Basically got alot of parents in trouble. When they went over the smoking killing people....I came home crying because I was for sure my dad my uncle and my aunt where all going to die right away. I'm glad they don't have that program anymore.
Veronica Connelly 3 years ago
When I found out my parents smoked weed I was in 5th grade aka D.A.R.E year. My brother who is 6 years older than me aka in highschool was the one who told me one day when they weren't home. He showed me their bong because I told him he was a liar and they would NEVER. He shows me laughing his friggen ASS OFF meanwhile I collapse on my parents bed CRYING MY HEART AND F*****G SOUL OUT praying outloud, "PLEASE GOD AND JESUS!!! PLEASE DONT LET MY PARENTS DIE!!!" Broke my heart. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why my parents would purposefully partake in something that was 100% guaranteed to make them into drug addicts and die in their sleep of burnt, black cancer ridden lungs any day now.. THANKS, big brother for ALWAYS TERRORIZING ME.. but an even bigger THANK YOU to the stupid f*****g D.A.R.E program for being overly dramatic about the facts and scarring kids for life. Should have been called S.C.A.R.E instead. Scarring/scaring children abusively ridiculous "education"
#61
Probably that if someone couldn't see me then I couldn't see them. It lead me to run around with my eyes closed and inevitably break my arm
#62
My mom told me 'Dos Equis' translated to 'Two Horses' - being young I absolutely did not understand my mother was pulling my leg. I justified it by connecting Equine and Equis and was like. 'Yep. Must be the truth.' So I went repeating this information until someone who spoke Spanish corrected me. She thought it was pretty funny when I told her the story. The Xs all over the bottle make a lot more sense now.
Melanie Hornak 3 years ago
Thank you. Still had to Google what this was all about. It's a type of beer....I think lol
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#63
I was “in” on this lie between my mom and younger sister. My sister was about 5 years old at the time, and my mom convinced her that Benadryl was “truth serum.” My mom would threaten to give it to my sister if she knew she was lying. It was so hilarious, but my sister seriously believed it and would get upset.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
Like the one where your ears turn red?
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My mom told me my birth mark was a coffee stain from when she accidentally spilled coffee on me as a baby. I believed it til I was like 11.
RifleReptiles 3 years ago
I have a reverse birthmark on my leg where it's lighter than the rest of my skin instead of darker.
årê ¥ðµ §µrê ¥ðµ'rê åwåkê? 3 years ago
i guess i got my finger stabbed :thonk:
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I was told it was a bruise from when I was in the womb and kicked my mom too hard. Mine is on my butt cheeks so.....
#65
That swallowed gum stays in your body for 7 years. I swallowed gum and thot that was the reason I was fat.
#66
If you twist your belly button your butt will fall off.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
that trick didn't work for me when i was a kid. i would look at a ratchet, for example and think, "ok, the handle is at the top and i'm turning it to the right, so i'm tightening. but now the handle is at the bottom and it's going to the left, so....?"
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 3 years ago
My bellybutton goes inward. I was told that is how my mom got my brain and heart inside of me
#67
The rumble stripes on the side of the road are there to help people who are blind drive.
Misstaken138 3 years ago
When I was around 16 my friend told me the reflective square markers on the lines in the road were so that blind people could drive. I totally believed him that there was such a thing as driving by braille. I told him that I had always wondered why the drive thru ATM machines had braille on their keypads, but now it makes perfect sense. For years I believed it. When I was in my mid-twenties I made a comment to my dad about driving by braille and told him that that's why the drive thru ATM has braille. My dad laughed his ass off and explained to me that blind people are not able to drive by braille and that the reason the drive thru ATM has braille is because they're all made the same regardless of whether it's going to be a walkup or drive thru ATM. That year my dad gave me the best birthday present ever... One of the reflective markers for the lines in the road. Dad had a friend that paved streets and asked him to get me one. I never lived that down.
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
How about blinking lights to show deaf people that the phone is ringing, so they can answer it?
#68
This isn’t a lie but when I was a kid I had no idea how turn signals worked and just thought the cars always knew exactly where we were going.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
I did too. I also thought the windshield wipers knew when it was raining and turned themselves on. Intermittent wipers knew when it was only raining a little bit.
#69
My parents convinced us that the person knocking on our door on weekend nights when we were asleep was our uncle Shiloh stopping to say hello. We don't have an uncle Shiloh. It was the pizza guy.
Ga Di 3 years ago
hmm, I don´t think this is fully thought trough - most children would then want to meet the uncle
Thomas Turnbull 3 years ago
Most kids would not bother with the uncle but want the pizza
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My grampa used to eat weird stuff like braunsweiger and other weird sausages. My dad told me his dad ate monkey brain sandwiches too. I told that to people for 25 years. Then I said it in front of my dad. He laughed and said he was just kidding.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
certainly lots of weirder stuff. i can remember my grandfather eating pickled pigs feet.
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Mattewis88 3 years ago (edited)
My mom used to tell me that if I wet the bed she'd give me a mouse/mice on toast which would cure me. I made sure to use the toilet before bed and each time I woke up.
#71
My older brother told me that Bob Barker was over 200 years old. He somehow convinced me that Bob was still alive because of all the Price is Right money. It seemed legit at the time. He also told me that Bob Barker made all the Price is Right girls sleep with him, I guess that part could have been true.
#72
My dad told me he was color blind to the extreme when I was 8. The sky is green, the grass is blue. Go was red, stop was green. The ultimate: white people look black and black people look white. My mom made him fix that last statement quick when I asked her, “mommy do I look black to you too?” She was livid but I was so gullible at that age lol
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Poor child. This could have caused so much confusion in the color world.
#73
My mom told me while I was helping mix some batter or something, that if I changed from mixing clockwise to counterclockwise the ingredients would unmixed. I believed this for way too long and still only mix clockwise.
Annamagelic 3 years ago
No, no its not. There are things you have to mix very precisely, such as macarons or other meringue based recipes, but direction never matters. Brownies are one of the simplest things to make, definity no particular stirring method required
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#74
I thought behind the walls of a cinema there was resting a white shark looking at us. I don't neither know nor remember why I believed that, but always watched the movies a little scared in case the walls would break and the shark eat all of us.
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
Before I could really “read”, every time I saw the “Wines & Liquors” sign on a retail store front, I thought the place was a gambling joint, with “ Wins & Losers”.
#75
my mom rented a never ending story and dad told me if i tried to watch it i'd have to sit there forever because it never ended, i remember being thankful for my dad's warning and wondering why mom would do that to me
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
The Neverending Story movie was eh. The book was excellent, but my dad promised me that the movie would scar me for life and it didn't. I feel so cheated.
#76
You can be what ever you want when you grow up.
#77
I believed you bought baby’s from the supermarket for Americans like Walmart for uk Morisons etc my parents told me that
#78
I believed the crust in the bread had all the vitamins and the center parts were empty calories.
DaveR38 3 years ago
Me too. Only I didn't want curly hair (mine naturally curled) so I didn't want to eat it
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I never liked how dry they are and I still eat them first so I can enjoy the inside after :)
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I was just made to eat the crust because it was wasteful to not do so.
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
I was shockingly old when I realized this was BS, as in my forties.
#79
Hiccups are symptoms of growth spurts… The other day I had hiccups and I guarantee you I didn’t grow any.
Ellen Light 3 years ago
I always thought that hiccups are micro-viruses. It always seemed that if I got the hiccups someone that I was around also got them - even if it was just one or two hiccups...weird.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I was told that every time you hiccup or sneeze that your heart stops beating. I still hate to sneeze or to hiccup.
#80
100% believed that if I left a pile of rocks under this tree outside our house, a fairy would come visit me. My parents told me that so I would go play outside
#81
If I said a lie I would get an ulcer on my tongue. I used to lie heaps till I was 11, I got an ulcer at 13 and said to my mum that I hadn’t lied why did I get an ulcer, she looked at me and laughed.
Anne Kilpatrick 3 years ago
An ulcer is an open sore on or in your body. I was told if you lie, you'd get one on your tongue.
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My dad told me the boogeyman lived inside of the cassette tape deck of his car. I definitely believed him and it freaked me tf out. Now I realize he just didn’t want me messing with his radio.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I never told any stories about the boogeyman to my children. It caused me lots of anxiety growing up.
#83
I remember when I was 7, someone had told me if you add water to your hair it will grow long like a plant. After hearing that, I used to wash my hair every single day for like 3 years (only my hair). I remember saying this to one of my friends later and he started laughing saying if I was joking and I was being dead serious. I did have long hair but it ended up being annoying and bothering. I much prefer short/medium length hair.
#84
That if you you die in your dream, you die in real life.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
i've died a few times in dreams and i'm probably still alive. once i saw the afterlife, even. turns out it's a purple-decorated earthenware bowl with milk in it and a bit of cinnamon sprinkled on top.
Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
Absolutely believed that. For way too long. Then I was killed in a dream. Horrible nightmare. I was shot, point blank, in the forehead. Everything went dark and I could hear the people in the room (in my dream) freaking out that I was dead. I felt dead. I'm not sure how to explain that. When I woke up, I was shocked to still be alive. That dream was hyper-realistic. It still freaks me out.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
"If I die in the dream, do I die in the real?" --Markiplier, Superliminal playthrough.
Summer Mason 3 years ago
I read in a study awhile back that someone actually did die in their sleep due to a heart attack but the endorphins found maintain the person was more than likely having a nightmare because they were perfectly healthy
#85
This kid told me that if your tore open an empty box of Marlboro's and the #'s read 777, you'd get some kind of prize. My 1978 was spent looking, but no luck.
#86
I asked my mum where babies come from, she told me a police man goes inside the womans belly button and just pulls it out.
#87
I'll be bloody rich when I grow up.
#88
When I was a kid, I loved eating watermelon. One day while I was eating, I accidentally swallowed a seed. I asked my elder sister about it. She said 'a watermelon tree will grow out of your head tonight.' I was terrified about it and didn't sleep or eat watermelon for a while. Nevermind that watermelons don't even grow on trees. To this day, I think about this whenever I have watermelon (I still love them).
#89
I believed that my mom was much younger than she really was.
thegolfball 3 years ago
My neighbor, 12 M, had seen a cross section of the female anatomy in a book showing ovaries. He then tried to convince us other guys that girls had a pair of testicles like we did.
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Miss_H84 3 years ago
I wrote this on another website that asked a similar question... When I was a kid (in the 90s) my friends sister told us that if we ate dill and other herbs we would turn into My Little Ponies. Their family grew herbs etc in their garden so we ate them so we could become MLPs. Different type of herbs would turn you into a different type of pony like a unicorn, a flying pony etc. Years later when I told my dad about it, he laughed and said it's a good thing she didn't tell us to eat nettles.
Lingon 3 years ago
Nettles are tasty and healthy, I'm looking forward to spring when I can make nettle soup.
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LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
I became the lie. As a female, I've always been unusually tall, always stood out for that. So one year during a family reunion, I think I was either 15 or 16, I was approached by one of my dad's cousins, and said her two young sons wanted to know how I got so tall. She asked me if I wouldn't mind lying to them and saying I got tall by eating all fruits and vegetables and drinking plenty of water. I saw no harm in this and the lie spread for years like wildfire. I'm tall from my mom's side of the family and my eating habits leave much to be desired.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
My brother told me that egg nog was made from people's spit. Even though I know it's not true, there's a part of me that still has a hard time drinking it because of that mental image of people in a factory standing over a vat and spitting into it to make it thick.
Summer Mason 3 years ago
I assumed all eggnog had acholal in it because only the grown ups drank it.
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Thomas Hunt, Jr. 3 years ago
I was 7 years old when this happened... My parents came to me asking me what color paint I wanted for my bedroom. "Dark Blue" They even went so far as to do paint color comparisons at the store for me. Trying to see what I liked and didn't like.... "Dark Blue" The big day came and they said that by the time I would come back from school my room would be painted. I remember running up the driveway, rushing into the kitchen and asking my parents if it was done.....they told me to guess what color it was.... "Dark Blue" They looked at each other and then told me to go see my room....... Light blue. I'm 44 years old now and still haven't forgiven my parents for that. On the plus side, I live alone and I have my dark room now.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
That's horrible, why ask if you aren't going to honour the answer?
Load More Replies... Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
I thought when you died, you got Xs over your eyes, like in the cartoons. And you also died with your arms stretched out, a lot Jesus on the cross. LOL!!!
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
When I was about 10 my parents bought me a tv for my bedroom, it was an LG one, for no particular reason I was convinced that they had my initials put on it to show it belonged to me as I had no idea LG was a brand, it was just my initials - took far too many years to figure it out
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I knew someone whose name was Chenille. She went to a department store and thought all of the blankets must have belonged to her because they had her name on them :)
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Kanuli 3 years ago
I was told warts come from frog pee. When I met a mother with a wart I wondered (and I think even asked her?) when a frog had peed on her. 🙃
Kanuli 3 years ago
Maybe take note of all the lies you told to your kids and clear them up at some point?!
Load More Replies... Miss_H84 3 years ago
I wrote this on another website that asked a similar question... When I was a kid (in the 90s) my friends sister told us that if we ate dill and other herbs we would turn into My Little Ponies. Their family grew herbs etc in their garden so we ate them so we could become MLPs. Different type of herbs would turn you into a different type of pony like a unicorn, a flying pony etc. Years later when I told my dad about it, he laughed and said it's a good thing she didn't tell us to eat nettles.
Lingon 3 years ago
Nettles are tasty and healthy, I'm looking forward to spring when I can make nettle soup.
Load More Replies... LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
I became the lie. As a female, I've always been unusually tall, always stood out for that. So one year during a family reunion, I think I was either 15 or 16, I was approached by one of my dad's cousins, and said her two young sons wanted to know how I got so tall. She asked me if I wouldn't mind lying to them and saying I got tall by eating all fruits and vegetables and drinking plenty of water. I saw no harm in this and the lie spread for years like wildfire. I'm tall from my mom's side of the family and my eating habits leave much to be desired.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
My brother told me that egg nog was made from people's spit. Even though I know it's not true, there's a part of me that still has a hard time drinking it because of that mental image of people in a factory standing over a vat and spitting into it to make it thick.
Summer Mason 3 years ago
I assumed all eggnog had acholal in it because only the grown ups drank it.
Load More Replies... Thomas Hunt, Jr. 3 years ago
I was 7 years old when this happened... My parents came to me asking me what color paint I wanted for my bedroom. "Dark Blue" They even went so far as to do paint color comparisons at the store for me. Trying to see what I liked and didn't like.... "Dark Blue" The big day came and they said that by the time I would come back from school my room would be painted. I remember running up the driveway, rushing into the kitchen and asking my parents if it was done.....they told me to guess what color it was.... "Dark Blue" They looked at each other and then told me to go see my room....... Light blue. I'm 44 years old now and still haven't forgiven my parents for that. On the plus side, I live alone and I have my dark room now.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
That's horrible, why ask if you aren't going to honour the answer?
Load More Replies... Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
I thought when you died, you got Xs over your eyes, like in the cartoons. And you also died with your arms stretched out, a lot Jesus on the cross. LOL!!!
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 3 years ago
When I was about 10 my parents bought me a tv for my bedroom, it was an LG one, for no particular reason I was convinced that they had my initials put on it to show it belonged to me as I had no idea LG was a brand, it was just my initials - took far too many years to figure it out
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I knew someone whose name was Chenille. She went to a department store and thought all of the blankets must have belonged to her because they had her name on them :)
Load More Replies... Kanuli 3 years ago
I was told warts come from frog pee. When I met a mother with a wart I wondered (and I think even asked her?) when a frog had peed on her. 🙃
Kanuli 3 years ago
Maybe take note of all the lies you told to your kids and clear them up at some point?!
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