Goofy shit you thought as a kid...

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

I thought a bedsheet would make an awesome parachute off the roof of our house.  Hence my subsequent head injuries.  

[Butch Had Not 2969]

My dad has/had an engineering background and my best friends dad was also engineer and they were both was always fixing, building, repairing, and rigging.  You name it.  I assumed you just knew how to do that shit when you got older. 

[nnm 36349]

1 hour ago, Par4 said:

Terrified of Bigfoot. Probably started when he made an appearance on The Six Million Dollar Man, but I also remember a documentary that was on TV. I asked my Dad how long it would take Bigfoot to walk from Washington state to Austin. I would have a nightmare and crawl to my parents room under the windows so he wouldn't see me. Five year olds imaginations are pretty intense. 

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21053]

1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

Also, the references to "the Donzerlie light" in the Star Spangled Banner.  Like it was a special light with a Fresnel lens or something. 

I would have spelled it "daunzerly" but I too thought that this was an adjective. 

[Scheiss Meister 8407]

1 hour ago, Par4 said:

Terrified of Bigfoot. Probably started when he made an appearance on The Six Million Dollar Man, but I also remember a documentary that was on TV. I asked my Dad how long it would take Bigfoot to walk from Washington state to Austin. I would have a nightmare and crawl to my parents room under the windows so he wouldn't see me. Five year olds imaginations are pretty intense. 

 

When I was 10 my little brother and I watched "The Legend of Boggy Creek".  For a month afterward I wouldn't sit near a window in case that bastard decided to try to grab me.  If you've seen the movie, you know the scene that got me.

[TwiceHorn 31438]

7 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

When I was 10 my little brother and I watched "The Legend of Boggy Creek".  For a month afterward I wouldn't sit near a window in case that bastard decided to try to grab me.  If you've seen the movie, you know the scene that got me.

Never did watch that movie.  Bigfoot scared the shit out of me.  And it was based on the "Fouke Monster," a bigfoot sighting/event in Fouke, AR, around Texarkana.  Before the movie even came out, my grandmother related the tales of the Fouke Monster.  And we were two counties away from Fouke at the time.

Edited October 13, 2022 by TwiceHorn

[Bullneck 19073]

Scaring the shit of out of young Bullneck:

Scaring the shit out of teenage Bullneck:

Scaring the shit out of middle aged Bullneck:

Spoiler

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by Bullneck

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

23 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

When I was 10 my little brother and I watched "The Legend of Boggy Creek".  For a month afterward I wouldn't sit near a window in case that bastard decided to try to grab me.  If you've seen the movie, you know the scene that got me.

I watched that too, but it didn’t affect my life choices, given that you deal with some boggy creeks lol. 

[Scheiss Meister 8407]

22 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Never did watch that movie.  Bigfoot scared the shit out of me.  And it was based on the "Fouke Monster," a bigfoot sighting/event in Fouke, AR, around Texarkana.  Before the movie even came out, my grandmother related the tales of the Fouke Monster.  And we were two counties away from Fouke at the time.

About 1/4 of my mom's many cousins (my grandmother had 11 siblings) lived in northwestern Louisiana or southwest Arkansas, including two near Fouke.  One said that the stories were bullshit, the other claimed to have seen it.  At 10 I believed the second one.

8 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I watched that too, but it didn’t affect my life choices, given that you deal with some boggy creeks lol. 

No, I keep creeks from being "boggy".

[Hook1997 5351]

Pretty sure I thought the world was black and white before thing for a while. The scary things that messed me up was Lechuza and Bloody Mary, definitely didn’t go around a mirror in the dark for a while.  Definitely thought saddam hussein was going to gas us for a while.  

[Superhero 8827]

I was terrified of sleestaks and afraid they could climb up the waterfall and come get me

 

[TwiceHorn 31438]

56 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

Pretty sure I thought the world was black and white before thing for a while. The scary things that messed me up was Lechuza and Bloody Mary, definitely didn’t go around a mirror in the dark for a while.  Definitely thought saddam hussein was going to gas us for a while.  

Speaking of which, I was pretty sure for a while that the world was literally black and white when my Mom and Dad grew up, because no color TV or color photos.

Edited October 13, 2022 by TwiceHorn

[TwiceHorn 31438]

44 minutes ago, Superhero said:

I was terrified of sleestaks and afraid they could climb up the waterfall and come get me

 

What about Chaka?

[Guest]

In the scared files as a kid... this scene in Ghostbusters:

Terrified me. Weirdly enough, I then became scared of this lady at the start of the movie:

[mininghorn88 2277]

In my younger days my father described someone that was very ill and had become feeble and had lost a lot of weight.  In his description he said that the person's head had shrunk into his shoulders.

In my young mind I was trying to envision how someone could look like and retract their head like a turtle.

This guy did not exist at the time.

Edited October 13, 2022 by mininghorn88

[utbone04 15]

On 10/10/2022 at 7:33 PM, Bender Bending Rodriguez said:

I also thought the song “Secret Agent Man” was “Secret Asian Man”. 

My coworkers mom thought "Dude looks like a Lady" was "Do the Funky Lady".

[utbone04 15]

On 10/10/2022 at 9:53 PM, nnm said:

My daughter (no pics) is 27 years old and a PA. A very bright young woman. She was raised until 9 in Santa Fe, where there’s a store called Jackalope and where a common postcard has a jackalope on it. 
She thought, until last year, that jackalope were real. 

With how crazy nature can be, I wouldn't be surprised if it were a real thing similar to how Narwhals are actually real even though most people think they are as fictional as land unicorns.

 

[Dennis Taylor 18809]

19 hours ago, YGIFS said:

How did these myths make it around the country so well?  

That's what Rod Stewart and Richard Gere would like to know

[Native Horn 3498]

10 hours ago, Superhero said:

I was terrified of sleestaks and afraid they could climb up the waterfall and come get me

 

Bill Laimbeer played a Sleestak while he was in high school.

[morehornsepower 887]

I thought that a business sign that said "Business Name, Est 1900" meant that the business was started *some time* around 1900 (est = estimated).  I thought there were some really stupid business owners that didn't know exactly when their business was launched, when the "estimated" date was only a few years in the past.

[Dennis Taylor 18809]

6 hours ago, Native Horn said:

Bill Laimbeer played a Sleestak while he was in high school.

That's when his likability peaked

[Underdog 28576]

20 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

When I was 10 my little brother and I watched "The Legend of Boggy Creek".  For a month afterward I wouldn't sit near a window in case that bastard decided to try to grab me.  If you've seen the movie, you know the scene that got me.

Watched it as a child and was also terrified of that thing, remember them showing the dead cat the next morning.  I watched it again several years ago on YT and laughed at how corny it was, even had a musical number in the middle of it.. The sequel was pure putrid shit even Mary Ann and young Dana Plato couldn't save kt. 

[Deej 76755]

I blame the show "That's Incredible!" for making me believe spontaneous human combustion was a serious threat to my existence. 

Fuck you, Fran Tarkenton, John Davidson, and Cathy Lee Crosby. 

[Mo Horn 8830]

When I bought something and got change back I thought I was getting free money. 

[NaTeWHO 852]

Overheard someone talking about rape and thought they said rake. For a few years thought if someone got "raked" they were attacked with a rake.

[NWBuck 8552]

5 hours ago, Deej said:

Fuck you, Fran Tarkenton, John Davidson, and Cathy Lee Crosby. 

"'specially Cathy Lee Crosby"- 12 year old NWB

[Underdog 28576]

[kurioster 66]

the Boogey Man lived in my grandparents attic according to my Grandma.  30+ years later and I now own/live in said house over a year and no signs of the Boogey Man.Plan on telling my 17 month old the same story.

[Kennythetiger 9375]

On 10/12/2022 at 8:57 PM, TwiceHorn said:

Never did watch that movie.  Bigfoot scared the shit out of me.  And it was based on the "Fouke Monster," a bigfoot sighting/event in Fouke, AR, around Texarkana.  Before the movie even came out, my grandmother related the tales of the Fouke Monster.  And we were two counties away from Fouke at the time.

Probably just @markstanco when he stepped outside for his morning piss. 

[7KHorn 2620]

Growing up we backpacked a lot in southern Colorado.  I was nervous about animals, etc.  My Dad and his friend convinced me that airplanes and satellites flying over at night were actually bear beacons looking for humans.  "Uh oh, there's another bear beacon flying over."

[RollLeft 5040]

On 10/10/2022 at 8:00 PM, Knoxtnhorn said:

I thought male nipples were called, "tillies".

 

[Bevo&Pevo 5120]

I thought that killer bees were going to make the state unlivable.  I also thought I would have to learn the metric system.  One last thought, that Indian TV commercial convinced me that America would be a trash dump.  Well.....

[Kennythetiger 9375]

On 10/15/2022 at 8:30 AM, kurioster said:

the Boogey Man lived in my grandparents attic according to my Grandma.  30+ years later and I now own/live in said house over a year and no signs of the Boogey Man.Plan on telling my 17 month old the same story.

The Boogey Man has you right where he wants you. 

[40acredropout 2902]

Along our staircase was photo of a blonde toddler girl at the beach.  I asked my older sister, five years older than me with dark brown hair at this point, who it was in the picture.  She told me it was me before I got a sex change.  I held onto that for a few months before finally getting the nerve to ask my parents about it.

Edited October 17, 2022 by 40acredropout

[Kennythetiger 9375]

1 hour ago, 40acredropout said:

Along our staircase was photo of a blonde toddler girl at the beach.  I asked my older sister, five years older than me with dark brown hair at this point, who it was in the picture.  She told me it was me before I got a sex change.  I held onto that for a few months before finally getting the nerve to ask my parents about it.

My brother and I told our little sister that she was adopted, but the adoptive family didn’t like her and brought her back. 
When my dad found out, he spanked us with his leather belt. 

[YGIFS 19449]

Who else's belt would it be?  

My dad actually taught us the metric system when we went to Canada and was convinced it would finally take over in the U.S.  To this day, I don't know the metric system very well and have zero fucking idea the size of a hectare or a quart.  

[Jerry Callo 8698]

1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

I don't know the metric system very well and have zero fucking idea the size of a hectare or a quart.

Doesn't sound like you know any of the systems very well.

[YGIFS 19449]

If you can tell me how many square meters a hectare is, you're obviously a witch and I must burn you.

[ABSR 5308]

It will always be Duck tape to me.

[Kennythetiger 9375]

2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Who else's belt would it be?  

My dad actually taught us the metric system when we went to Canada and was convinced it would finally take over in the U.S.  To this day, I don't know the metric system very well and have zero fucking idea the size of a hectare or a quart.  

A metric quart or a conventional quart?  

[Jerry Callo 8698]

1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

If you can tell me how many square meters a hectare is, you're obviously a witch and I must burn you.

[nnm 36349]

 

[jetsfan76 710]

Whenever they would do the dramatizations of crimes on local TV, I wondered why they didn't just arrest the guy right there.

After seeing the super long Thriller video, I knew zombies were real, so I'd always keep an eye out for where cemeteries were, wondering how long it'd take to get to my house. 

[Longboard Horn 40295]

I thought we would have hover boards and hover cars. No more road or flat tire problems!

[nnm 36349]

On 10/10/2022 at 2:47 PM, Upgrayedd said:

We would have flying cars by now.

 

[SilasCoade 2622]

I thought the troll from 3 Billy Goats Gruff lived under every bridge and was absolutely terrified going over them.

I thought reading a book of karate instruction from the public library was going to make me indomitable in fights. Instead it just made my mom mad at the late fees.

Edited October 22, 2022 by SilasCoade

[nnm 36349]

18 minutes ago, SilasCoade said:

I thought the troll from 3 Billy Goats Gruff lived under every bridge and was absolutely terrified going over them.

Have you looked under bridges in Austin recently?

[Guest]

On 10/17/2022 at 3:43 PM, nnm said:

 

Ha! Need to ask my kid today if they've talked about this. 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

On 10/17/2022 at 2:43 PM, nnm said:

 

A teacher asked what you’re supposed to do in a tornado warning and I raised my hand and demonstrated a stop drop and roll.  

[mchookem 16321]

if the interior light in the car was on for longer than like five seconds while your parents were driving they would either lose control of the vehicle and crash or be arrested.