What is the wierdest misinformation you had as a child?

Answer 1

That if you swallowed a watermelon seed a real watermelon would grow inside you. I remember swallowing one, and was so worried for weeks, until my mom finally asked me what was wrong. Once I told her she laughed and said that wasn't true and it couldn't happen. I was so confussed on why adults would tell you that if it couldn't happen!!

Answer 2

That demons will come into your house if you have horror novels or do anything that Jehovah's Witnesses say you're not allowed to do, such as have a cross, and that you can meet a person who is possessed.

I met one of these people spoken about and she was simply delusional, not possessed. I had my cross that was given to me for over three months before my mom found it and mostly GOOD stuff was happening in my life at that time coz I was with happy people...the only "demonic" thing was when she went into a rage and tried to throw it away and me out of the house..., LOL. The horror novels (Stephen King, for instance) never changed a thing except giving me something to do quietly in my room sometimes and if I'd met a demon, that would have been far more exciting than meeting no one at all on those boring weekends. :)

Answer 3

That I should go to church every sunday or i'm commiting a sin, that gum was made out of cat's tripe, that If I ate vegetables my eyes would turn blue....
-If a dug a very deep hole in the ground I would find China
- That Santa, fairies, elfs, easter bunny existed.
- That if I ate watermelon seeds a tree would grow in my belly and the branches would come out of my ears.
- My mother would shake my hand and tell me that It was 'loose' and that I would fall off (that really upset me).
- That eating raw spaghetti was bad 4 ya and it would stick in my stomach forever


Too many things, I think that I was bulls.hited around a lot when I was lil, I jst realized that with your question, lol

Answer 4

I spent part of my youth just outside of San Francisco and went to Chinatown with my family a lot. A lot of the grocery stores had chickens on display in the windows and I believed that this is where babies come from. Someone wanted a baby...they went to Chinatown and picked one up, hanging upside down in the windows by their feet.

In a couple of years, I'm going to catch Hell when my husband and I adopt our baby....from China.

Answer 5

That the monster under my bed didn't exist. But the rats did. My dad was just joking, but every night i flailed a bat underneath my bed and set out mousetraps. One night I heard a snap and a yowl. It turns out my dad had stepped on a trap i had laid carefully next to my bed. After that he informed me there were no rats and begged me not to set any more traps.

Answer 6

When I was 7, I saw a public service announcement on TV about Venereal Disease.

I asked my mother "ma, what's VD?" and she told me "it's something you get from hanging around with bad people".

For years after that, I thought that all gangsters and criminals had VD, and you caught VD if you committed a crime or went to jail.

Answer 7

when i was little i thought that the stop lights around the world were run by one man siting in a tower and that he knew every street and some how he knew when there was cars passing through the lights

and i thought that when you rewound movies the actors were playing it backwards for fun because they were stuck in the VHS box

Answer 8

When Leave it to Beaver was in re-runs

What was the sexiest thing ever said on the show?

When June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsly) said to Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) "Ward you were a little too rough on the Beaver last night."

Answer 9

I was told that studying hard and graduating from college with good grades would lead to a bright future. I fell for that one hook, line and sinker.

Answer 10

if you would swallow any kind of seed from a fruit, a tree would grow inside you that's what my nanny told my brothers and sisters and myself.