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Title: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: alandhopewell on October 04, 2012, 01:57:33 PM
     When I was a kid, I believed....
In the toilet monster, that if you flushed the toilet at night, it would wake up, and grab you.

That the padlocked storage rooms in the basement of the Dreamland, near the Men's room, were where they kept the monsters between movies.

 That if you stirred coffee or other beverages backwards, they would unmix.

That the stockboys at the supermarket went out and shot the turkeys they sold for Thanksgiving.

That if you dialed a certain number at night, you could hear dead people talking. (My older cousin, Todd, told me that).

That I could jump off the garage roof with an umbrella, and float down like Jiminy Cricket (Thanks again, Todd!)

That there was a skeleton in our upstairs closet; I thought I heard my mother say so.

     What about you?


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: The Burgomaster on October 04, 2012, 03:02:40 PM
We lived beside a grammar school that had an iron fire escape attached to it.  When I was around 6 or 7 years old, there was a story going around the neighborhood that if you stepped on a certain spot at the top of the fire escape, the iron stairs would extend very high into the sky and you wouldn't be able to get down.  I remember climbing those stairs and getting very near the top, but being afraid to step on the top landing because I thought I'd get raised up into the clouds and be stuck up there forever. 


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Jack on October 04, 2012, 04:30:13 PM
My mom told me that if I opened my mouth really wide, my whole head would turn inside out.  I was skeptical, but you know, it's from mom and she would never lie...


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Raffine on October 05, 2012, 12:03:09 AM
If a snapping turtle bit you it would hang on to you until it thundered. Even if you cut its ugly head off the head would continue to dangle from your arm, foot, whatever.

We did sometimes wonder why you NEVER saw people walking around with big turtles dangling from them, but we rationalized if you DID have a turtle attached to your hand you'd be too embarrassed to go out in public until a thunderstorm freed you from it.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Trevor on October 05, 2012, 03:04:30 AM
If a snapping turtle bit you it would hang on to you until it thundered. Even if you cut its ugly head off the head would continue to dangle from your arm, foot, whatever.

We did sometimes wonder why you NEVER saw people walking around with big turtles dangling from them, but we rationalized if you DID have a turtle attached to your hand you'd be too embarrassed to go out in public until a thunderstorm freed you from it.

 :buggedout: +  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

I was told that the reason a Volkswagen Beetle had two pipes at its rear was that if the engine failed, you could use it as a wheelbarrow.  :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: tracy on October 05, 2012, 01:53:16 PM
Our across the street neighbor told us that if you kiss a cat on the mouth you'd get cancer.....we were a lot younger and believed her until Mom set us straight.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: El Misfit on October 05, 2012, 02:06:55 PM
I believed that everyone can read minds. No joke, I thought reading minds was real.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: tracy on October 05, 2012, 02:10:17 PM
As a very young child I believed that when you went to Heaven and moved into your mansion,there would be a big pile of everything you ever lost in the back yard.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on October 05, 2012, 05:25:22 PM
Forget the garage roof. Forget the umbrella. I believed as a kid, that if I jumped out of the 3rd story window of our apartment, I would survive the experience. Fortunately, I never tried to prove whether that was correct or not.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: AndyC on October 05, 2012, 06:28:57 PM
If you step on a spider, it'll rain. I can remember quite a few kids who subscribed to that idea. Don't know where it came from, or why kids kept believing it.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: JaseSF on October 05, 2012, 08:15:02 PM
If you step on a spider, it'll rain. I can remember quite a few kids who subscribed to that idea. Don't know where it came from, or why kids kept believing it.

I've heard that one before...think it's an old superstition or something. Yeah I believed it as a kid.  Also superstitions like not stepping on a crack (you'll break your mother's back), avoiding black cats.

As a kid at one point, I believed I actually controlled the wind with my mind. Also believed there were fairies in the woods and one shouldn't go on the marsh at evening because that's when they came out. Also thought there really was a pot of gold underneath a rainbow. And oh that you should never look at yourself in a mirror in the dark as you would see the Grim Reaper. Yeah I was a bit kooky as a kid I guess.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: ChaosTheory on October 05, 2012, 09:21:25 PM


That I could jump off the garage roof with an umbrella, and float down like Jiminy Cricket (Thanks again, Todd!)

Yep, I was pretty convinced of that one; sadly my mother refused to let me prove it.


I believed if you didn't keep your eyes closed when you sneezed, your eyes would pop out of your head.  I also believed your eyes would pop out if you held your breath for too long.



Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: zombie no.one on October 05, 2012, 09:37:03 PM
when I was very young I used to think that when a man and woman got married, the woman had to have a baby on the day of the wedding


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: AndyC on October 05, 2012, 11:11:28 PM
when I was very young I used to think that when a man and woman got married, the woman had to have a baby on the day of the wedding

My parents were fine with telling me the mechanics of conception when I was little, but avoided any talk about sexual activity. There was a time when I thought it just happened after marriage, maybe because couples slept in the same bed. The sperm just wiggled their way across the sheets during the night or something. Needless to say, it made much more sense after somebody finally explained intercourse.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: RCMerchant on October 06, 2012, 06:08:32 AM
     



That I could jump off the garage roof with an umbrella, and float down like Jiminy Cricket (Thanks again, Todd!)



I got the same idea from Mary Poppins-tried it too-only it was from a huge stack of lumbar at my freind Frankie Marada's hous in Wappinger Falls,NY.

If a snapping turtle bit you it would hang on to you until it thundered. Even if you cut its ugly head off the head would continue to dangle from your arm, foot, whatever.

We did sometimes wonder why you NEVER saw people walking around with big turtles dangling from them, but we rationalized if you DID have a turtle attached to your hand you'd be too embarrassed to go out in public until a thunderstorm freed you from it.

I beleved this as well for the looongest time! untill my early teens! Sheesh!  :lookingup:

I also beleived that if an earwig got into your ear-it would crawl into your brain and lay eggs-thanks to an old episode of "Night Gallery" for that little nightmare.

My mom told me that if I opened my mouth really wide, my whole head would turn inside out.  I was skeptical, but you know, it's from mom and she would never lie...

Heh heh-I thought for the longest time if I crossed my eyes  too much they would stay crossed-FOREVER.

When I was a little kid we stayed in a foster care home of some old lady who had this  large photo of some creepy kid in a Buster Brown type suit hanging in her bedroom-the eyes followed us...me and my brother really thought the picture was of a kid that lived and was murdered there and he lived in the picture.

In our old farmhouse on Dead End Road we had a bedroom whch was next to the attic-a small door in our room led into it.
My brother Mike told me that a dead kid named Billy lived in there. He couldn't come out because if you saw him you would die too-and live in the attic as well-FOREVER.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 06, 2012, 11:29:01 AM
I thought potatoes came from the bakery. 


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: LilCerberus on October 06, 2012, 12:01:11 PM
I started considering suicide when I was eight years old.
In private, I would whisper to myself, "I wish I was dead", but was always careful not to say it out loud, for fear a leprechaun might appear out of nowhere & grant my wish.

In retrospect, probably my first foray into the irony of this existence...


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: zombie no.one on October 06, 2012, 02:04:22 PM
I thought potatoes came from the bakery. 
all potatoes? or just... baked potatoes :teddyr:


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: RCMerchant on October 06, 2012, 02:55:37 PM
I thought potatoes came from the bakery. 

I thought cigars grew on cigar trees...as did-of all things-spahgetti noodles.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: The Burgomaster on October 06, 2012, 03:51:58 PM
   
That I could jump off the garage roof with an umbrella, and float down like Jiminy Cricket (Thanks again, Todd!)


When I was a kid, we had a tree in our yard that had big, soft, floppy leaves on it.  I'm not sure what kind of tree it was.  Anyway, me and my friend used to pull off a bunch of leaves, hold them in our hands, and flap them like wings as we jumped off the picnic table.  We never flew very far.  Incidentally, I also tried to teach my sister how to jump out of that tree without getting hurt . . . and I fractured my wrist.



Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Jack on October 07, 2012, 06:24:37 AM
That I could jump off the garage roof with an umbrella, and float down like Jiminy Cricket (Thanks again, Todd!)

I'm still convinced that would work if you could just find an umbrella that wouldn't turn inside out.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Raffine on October 09, 2012, 11:05:30 AM
Quote
I also beleived that if an earwig got into your ear-it would crawl into your brain and lay eggs-thanks to an old episode of "Night Gallery" for that little nightmare.


I was horrified a few years later to learn in school earwigs actually did exist! They were those funny-looking bugs I'd seen all my life. I was convinced one was gonna crawl in my ear and lay eggs - if the Bigfoot who lived in the half acre of woods next to our house didn't get me first.

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I thought cigars grew on cigar trees...as did-of all things-spahgetti noodles.


There actually was a famous April Fool's Day hoax broadcast on the BBC back in the 50s about the trials and tribulations of spaghetti farmers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on October 09, 2012, 04:06:02 PM
when I was very young I used to think that when a man and woman got married, the woman had to have a baby on the day of the wedding
When we got married, my 4 year old nephew thought we'd be handed a baby, and was scared the baby would have to sleep with him.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Chainsawmidget on October 09, 2012, 10:05:29 PM
Where I grew up, there was an spot that eople had piled up old trees, tires, and other things and dumped a huge mound of dirt on top of it all, making sort of a odd shaped small hill.  As a kid, we all called that the Devil's Den and thought that if you could dug into it, you could dig a tunnel to hell. 


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Pacman000 on October 11, 2012, 05:38:26 PM
I thought Fruit Gushers, the candy, would turn your head into a giant piece of fruit.

It did in the commercials, so I was always too scared to try it.  


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on October 11, 2012, 05:46:28 PM
When the Jonestown thing happened in the 70's I was convinced it was happening just down the road. 
-Ed


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Raffine on October 11, 2012, 06:38:38 PM
If you swallowed a watermelon seed watermelon plants would crow out of your ears.

I still have an unconscious fear of swallowing any kind of seeds, and pick them out of watermelons, cantelope, tomatoes, etc.


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Allhallowsday on October 11, 2012, 07:59:49 PM
Our mother used to look in our ears and once in awhile scold one of us for " y'got potatoes growing in your ear".   It always made us laugh... and later I used to wonder... potatoes must start out pretty small.  .   .   :buggedout: :lookingup: :twirl:


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Rev. Powell on October 12, 2012, 08:23:32 AM
when I was very young I used to think that when a man and woman got married, the woman had to have a baby on the day of the wedding
When we got married, my 4 year old nephew thought we'd be handed a baby, and was scared the baby would have to sleep with him.


You married your 4-year old nephew?  :buggedout:


Title: Re: WEIRD STUFF YOU BELIEVED AS A KID
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on October 12, 2012, 01:07:50 PM
Don't make me use the P-word Buddy...
When ANNA AND I got married....

Egad.