Ridiculous Things You Believed As A Kid

[Duke]

When I was a kid, I actually believed the city of Metropolis existed. LOL

 

[Ms. Marvel]

Now this is really silly, but some of you will remember the infamous Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz. There's a story in there about this girl who had a sore on her face from a spider bite, and when she got into the shower, hundreds of baby spiders went crawling out of the sore because the spider had laid its eggs there. I thought this story was true. I don't know where I got the idea, but none of the other stories bothered me as much as that one because I thought it would happen to me. And what's worse, I believed this into my early teens, so the first few pimples that I got were very traumatizing to me because I thought spiders were going to come crawling out at any second.

Yeah, I thought that was real too.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

When I was a kid, I actually believed the city of Metropolis existed. LOL

It totally does. I live right across the river from it! They have a Superman festival and a Superman statue and everything! Except they aren't really so much of a city as a small town....how'd they get the claim to Superman?

 

[Kryptonian Warrior]

When I was a kid, I use to think that women NEVER farted. Boy was I wrong!

 

[Xeno]

When I first saw one of those maps of the US where all of the states were different colors, I believed that the ground in every state was the same color as the map. So if you went to Colorado, for example, it would be purple like on the map below. The only exception was Maryland, my home state. I knew that was green (because of the grass).

I also thought that when you crossed the borders between states (or counties) there would be actual lines on the ground to let you know, like on a map. I wasted a lot of time on road trips looking for those lines.

 

[lozzy.94]

Okay i got some really crazy ones.

- There was an abandoned farm were we used to live that had a huge gate, and I use to think it was the entrance to Jurassic Park.

- That King Kong was the King of England.

- That when you lose your virginity you will no longer have boners anymore.

 

[Hobgoblin]

One of my brother's friends thought that vampires and werewolves were real. I asked him how they were created and he said that a radioactive meteorite landed in the ocean. It became an island, people came to live on it and eventually they mutated.

 

[Teelie]

That actually makes more sense than some of the crazy ideas I've seen in movies.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I thought wearing a red cape was enough to fly like Superman

 

[Senator Pleasury]

When I first saw one of those maps of the US where all of the states were different colors, I believed that the ground in every state was the same color as the map. So if you went to Colorado, for example, it would be purple like on the map below. The only exception was Maryland, my home state. I knew that was green (because of the grass).

I also thought that when you crossed the borders between states (or counties) there would be actual lines on the ground to let you know, like on a map. I wasted a lot of time on road trips looking for those lines.

I might be wrong but I think Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain's character) thought the same.

I thought wearing a red cape was enough to fly like Superman

Heh, I myself thought that a Spider-man costume could make you able to crawl walls.

 

[Hobgoblin]

That actually makes more sense than some of the crazy ideas I've seen in movies.

I thought it sounded like an idea that Stan Lee would be proud of.

 

[Teelie]

It does sound very much like the kind of origin he and the comic artists and writers of his time would have thought of.

 

[coffeebreath]

Yeah, I thought that was real too.

Yup, with that book I was still of the age where if it said it was a true story it meant it was.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Heh, I myself thought that a Spider-man costume could make you able to crawl walls.

I believed in the spider bite
No need for radioactive venom

 

[Mace Dolex]

When I was a kid, I actually believed the city of Metropolis existed. LOL

Funny thing when I was a kid and my family and I would take trips to Los Angeles my father would jokingly point to the LA buildings in downtown and say that's where Superman fights criminals.

I thought wearing a red cape was enough to fly like Superman

As a kid I really did think it was the cape that made Superman fly and pretty much thought that of every hero with a cape.

 

[BATZARRO WWD]

As a kid(early late 80s/90s), I was told by my cousin Boba Fett was a scarred-up blonde lady under the helmet. I held this belief until Episode II came out.

 

[Spider-X]

When I first saw one of those maps of the US where all of the states were different colors, I believed that the ground in every state was the same color as the map. So if you went to Colorado, for example, it would be purple like on the map below. The only exception was Maryland, my home state. I knew that was green (because of the grass).

I'd blame Dr. Seuss for that one...


When I was a kid, I believed you only grew on your birthday. So, for example, you went to bed the day before your birthday and you were 5'4"...then the next day you were 5'6"! a whole 2" taller, Happy Birthday!

Part of the reason for this belief was that I didn't have a growth chart in my house, but my other friends did, so I just assumed.

 

[AnneFan]

That a full size Batmobile would be parked in our driveway on Christmas morning because I asked for one.

 

[NickNitro]

When I was little I didn't understand how gravity worked.

I thought that when the Earth spun the people who eventually got to the "bottom" would just fall off into space

 

[nite-owl]

Okay i got some really crazy ones.

- There was an abandoned farm were we used to live that had a huge gate, and I use to think it was the entrance to Jurassic Park.

- That King Kong was the King of England.

- That when you lose your virginity you will no longer have boners anymore.

He was one of the greatest kings England ever had.

 

[Teelie]

He flung more **** than he took, that's for certain.

 

[bullets]

I used to think dogs could speak English if they were taught properly. I just assumed they didn't understand people talk so they barked instead.

 

[Ultimatehero]

That the United States was the best country there is. Then (in middle school) Bush's administration happened and things have been going to hell ever since.

 

[nite-owl]

He flung more **** than he took, that's for certain.

He was nothing more than a figurehead for Prime Minister Kong.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I grew up on the 80's G.I.Joe that when told as a kid there were G.I.Joes way before and 12" size I just couldn't believe and wondered how the adventures of Joe vs. Cobra were back then.

It wasn't till years later that I find out G.I.Joe in the 60's was just an individual nameless guy with various army ranks that didn't fight evil terrorists bent on world domination.