The things you believed as a child.

[Satanist]

I remember overhearing a conversation and rushing home to inform my dad that "someone at the doctors had been turned into a bar of soap".

Turned out the actual conversation was that "The old doctors surgery has been turned into a corner shop"

[richerthanyou]

If you went on a roller coaster that went upside down you would be sick

[ming]

I used to think that if I swam in the style of Bobby-from-Dallas as seen in The Man from Atlantis, I'd be able to breathe underwater, pretty much.  Not sure if I expected gill development but I was quite certain that the swimming style was the key.

[The Legendary Shark]

That if I found the right stick and bashed it into the ground in the right way, I too could become the Mighty Thor.

[Pyroxian]

That if I found the right stick and bashed it into the ground in the right way, I too could become the Mighty Thor.

To be fair - I'm in my forties, and I'm still trying to work out the right way to clench my fists so that Adamantium claws pop out...

[Tjm86]

That if I found the right stick and bashed it into the ground in the right way, I too could become the Mighty Thor.

To be fair - I'm in my forties, and I'm still trying to work out the right way to clench my fists so that Adamantium claws pop out...

I find it possible to clench my fist so a single finger pops out.  Does that count?

[TordelBack]

I used to think that if I swam in the style of Bobby-from-Dallas as seen in The Man from Atlantis, I'd be able to breathe underwater, pretty much. 

I believed this exact same thing.

[Big_Dave]

parents said that
when the ice cream van
rings its chimes
that means its out of ice cream

[auxlen]

Downer alert: That god was real and was disappointed in everything i did or said. I know this might seem melodramatic but i had that beaten into me by nuns who called me the devil because i was naughty and was going to burn in hell forever...well, an eight year old tends to take that kind of shit at face value.

[Echidna]

parents said that
when the ice cream van
rings its chimes
that means its out of ice cream

Are we doing them as haiku now?

Little brother thought
You spin the steering wheel round
To make the car go

[DaveGYNWA]

That my mum was putting my birthday money into a bank account for me each year - figured that one out when I got to 16.

[richerthanyou]

Al Pacino was a mobster from America who was also an actor.

And he used to be called Al Capone but he changed his name to avoid the police.

Turns out Capone and Pacino were 2 completely different people! Took me a while to discover that one.

[sheridan]

Rachael (who many of you have met at Southern Contingent meetings) used to believe that Daley Thompson was her step-dad.  Whenever he appeared on TV (Daley Thompson, not her dad) she'd cry out "Dad's on TV!"

I should point out that Rachael's step-dad was Indian and had a moustache (though I still don't imagine he looked much like Mr. Thompson).

[ThryllSeekyr]

Santa, Jesus, and a just and fair political system.

Cheers

What about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy which almost complete the animate cast.....

[ThryllSeekyr]

That the green algae sitting on top of the water in drainage ditches was a supernatural being called Jinny Greenteeth who would leap out and pull you in if you got too close.

And Jack Frost who my late grandmother on my late mother's side would talk to me about.....Almost all Rise of the Guardians and I was never pleased with that film.

Seriously, I do remember being very superstitious in starting at around about the age of  10 onwards and still am a bit, but not so much.

There were certain days of the week that I would dread including that auspicious date of Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th because of the horror films of the same name.

From the same age, I was also very shy around girls and this has stunted my social life.