» What nonsense did you believe in as a kid?

That if you ate the pips from an apple core
An apple tree would grow in your belly really really slowly and eventually you'd die horribly with branches growing out of your mouth. I ate a whole apple core once as a playground dare when I was about 6, and spent the next few months awaiting my imminent death.

Also, as a child I had bunk beds (for no apparent reason, as I had a room to myself). I slept on the top bunk and was utterly convinced that Grotbags from the Rod Hull & Emu show was laying on the bottom bunk, and if any part of my anatomy dangled down she would rip it off and eat it. Many's the night I pissed the bed as I was too scared to climb down the ladder to go to the toilet.
(Sun 22nd Jan 2012, 9:59, More)