You know bruises on bananas, hen a somehat circular region turns a darker colour within the flesh? I thought those were spiders that had somehow gotten inside the banana. it was only many years after I'd outgrown this that I made the connection between spiders stowing away in bunches of bananas.

D.B.
Rain_Kid
Geeze! That's scary
I've remembered one more like this - I used to think holes in achy teeth are made by some kind of worms Ewww...

As for dark matter in bananas - I though dark things about that too, but finally calmed herself down considering it's just seeds

When I was about five I rmember I used to reckon that there was a massive spider in my attic (I don't mean taranutla sized, I mean dog sized) Probably because spiders have always made me shiver a little.

i have one of those "the last to know" type personalities.

So i used to believe an awful lot of things when I was a kid, i was the gullible one too.

One for instance my dad used to own a 97 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi... was a nice car...... anyway the front headlights had little windscreen wipers, I was told and believed these prevented people and animals being hit when driving along, they would sweep the thing being hit to the side of the car. I know mad... but i was about 7 then. Anyway we had the car for a long time and it was fantastic http://www.carairo.com/catalog/images/VA09802.jpg <--- corgi model of it in same colours too

My dad was also an amateur radio buff and we have loads of masts on our roof for different types of radio signals ect. I used to believe my dad was part of the secret service and all the antenna's picked up all the secret conversations around the world. again around 7-8yo then. Incidently my dad did speak to a lot of people round the world, on a good night he could bounce the signals and chat to people in America. He also spoke to King Hussein of Jordon on his rig too.

Just a couple of wacky things from my life.

Casper
Wow. It's weird, indeed. I wish I could see such an interesting thing.
Speaking of other childish things except beliefs - when I was 4 years old, once I locked my grandma at the bathroom, when no one else was at home. I stood outside the door, eating candy and then I've suddenly realised I'm alone, and started crying. She told me, how to unlock the door, but I couldn't. Fortunately, grandma was able to climb out through the window

Empethree
Nice one. It protects from thinking about death. I remember "The crash" movie, where one guy gave his daughter "magic invisible clocks" to protect her from bullets and she really believed that.

It's great that you've never hit anyone.

ametur_poet
Heh, such things always made me sad, when I discovered, that the stories grownup people tell or their poems or their songs weren't made by themselves. It made them liars, even if they're never pretended to be the authors

These are all quite interesting and funny to read, some of which I already know about
(yes, you cashew boy!, and I know more!...mwhahaha)

It's funny cos I know, I was definitely an odd kid, still kind of am , but I did have crazy beliefs and things I did, yet I can't quite remember them when it comes to recalling them, most of which I've been told I did, but I don't really remember them till its brought up again!

However I can think of one right now which is pretty amusing to hear about, its kind of a belief but not
I was about 4 and was at a christening of my Godmother's son and I they're pretty religious, so the ceremony was quite serious and quite, and as the priest lit up these big candles, I started singing very loudly, burst into "Happy Birthday to you!" (etc) and, apparently wouldn't stop!
Guess I thought of the big candle was being lit like one on a birthday cake
mmm....now I'm wanting cake!
*disappears off to the kitchen!*

ALM

Come to think of it, thats happened to me before. When I watched 'Apollo 13' for the first time when I was a wee' lad, I thought when it announced Jack Swigert died later, I thought Kevin Bacon (the actor) died too.

Oh god, I thought that too.

When I was little I also used to believe that when rabbits died they went to Watership Down. My whole life I've always been terrified of hitting rabbits while travelling in the car, so someone told me it to make me feel better. XD Used to believe that Care Bears really existed too, thanks to my auntie who told me they watch over you while you're sleeping.

Vicky

Really? I thought that was the only one who believed that...
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In the evenings heard noises coming from the furniture ... I thought that charging life or something (which I was very scared).
Then I discovered that those noises were related to the furniture was contracted. 

(Sorry for my bad English)

In the early childhood most of all I was afraid of “Phantomas”, the character from the same French film in which leading roles played Jean Mare as Phantomas  and Louis de Funes as Inspector Zhuv. It’s comedy film I perceived as film of horrors. Every evening falling asleep in darkness and loneliness to me seem Phantomas or his huge dark blue head which sticked out of a wall. It looked ominously.

Great topic, veyr interesting!

I'm fraid i'm a bit boring on this aspect because i haven't got anything really interesting to say here. Mostly, i don't remember anything about my childhood in this topic, but two things.

The first, it's pretty usual. I was always attracted by horror movies when i was a kid and sometimes i managed to catch glimpses of them in spots, at friends, wherever i could.  The weird thing is, i thought the monsters in those movies were real like the people in them, so they existed somewhere. Of course, those kept haunting me by night. Since i was too proud to go to sleep with the lights on or asking my mom to get one of those light LEDs, i "enbunkened" myself in my bed, literally wrapped myself up with the sheets so nothing could come and get me.  It made hard to breathe, so sometimes i had to open up a little hole to suck fresh air in, and that felt like i was daring anything to enter my "sacred wrap".
So yeah, usual "boogeyman" fear.

I also remember i was scared of bullies, not in the normal way (scared of being beaten up or made fun of), but a real scared to death way.I was sure they had right of life or death over the other kids, and if you were killed by a bully at school, no one would care. That fear went away by itself though.

SimpReal
My child fears concerns more to social aspects too. When I was in sixth grade of school, I used to live in another city. It was "nineteens". There was simply general enthusuasm for rap or rave (still there was less popular formations like rockers or metalheads..). Anyway I always feared to find myself in the middle of "showdown" between such groups. I thought they fighting like hand-in-hand  battle without any rules, like berserks. :\ And every member of band obliged to fight to the end. While I don't wanted to die because of music I don't really like.

Ahh man, I never saw this thread! Interesting and hilarious. ;D

Shadow Nait
Mmh... wanna bet there's a slice of truth in there?

Gazmanafc
The voice actor must be terminated to avoid a paradox. ;x

I had a wild imagination as a kid... and I was a pretty messed up one until recent years (still messed up, now I'm aware of it though! ^-^). Did alot of crazy stuff, but I can't remember alot of beliefs though... oh well.

First thing I remember is me and my best friend used to think we were from outer space and that we'd crashed into the ocean with our space shuttle. Can't remember much else about it, but I read alot about space and got me a telescope. Quite obsessed with space. I learned to read early and when I was 4-5 I was quite the lil' astronomer. ^-^ Always searching for things up there in the sky, it actually payed off one day. Dunno if anyone else remembers it on the news or something (Andreas, you're into this stuff, perhaps you can enlighten us?), but one night when I was sleeping over at my friends place we were just looking up into the sky, and around midnight we saw a comet! Big one, with a beautiful tail! I think it was actually not that far from colliding with earth, I remember something about that... or perhaps it's unrelated. I believe it was somewhere between 1995-1997, I don't know how often comets lit up clearly in the sky, so perhaps it's hard to "recall".

Second belief is similar to what Kat posted, me n my friend (same one) believed that the kindergarten across the street from my house was haunted. The place was actually really creepy at night, we'd always sneak around the place and look inside the windows and over the massive yard. I think someone told us it used to be a burial ground or something, which intrigued us. We were always scared to death, but at the same time really excited... we were always fascinated by the unknown. And for the record I could swear we saw some whiteish things moving around from time to time. Was probably nothing, but more than enough for us to keep searching for ghosts!

Most likely, this was comet Hyakutake in early 2006, the brightest comet since at least 20 years (after comet West in 1976, the year when I was born). It was rather close to earth indeed and dramatically increased its brightness over a few days, and in late februrary/early march, the tail covered virtually half the sky! There was another, even brighter comet in april 1997, Hale-Bopp, which was visible for several weeks, but I always thought that Hyakutake was much more beautiful. Too bad that comet McNaught was practically only visible from the southern hemisphere in january 2007, it was another most beautiful appearance (search for some pics at Wikipedia or so if you don't remember it anymore).