The Dumbest Lies People Believed When They Were Kids

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Mel Dawn
Apr 30, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

When I was a little kid, a friend's older brother told us that there was a possessed severed hand that lived under the Golden Gate Bridge and would snatch children from cars that drove across it at night. Maybe it was his convincing delivery, but I fully believed this absurd scary story and was terrified (for years) of crossing the bridge at night. There was one time my family drove up to Napa Valley for the day, and as the hours passed, I kept urging my parents to take us all home before sunset. They didn't listen. When we drove across the bridge in the dark, you better believe I was sweating up a storm. Miraculously, against all odds, I made it home that night. 

Someone recently asked the people of Reddit about the biggest lies they ever believed, and the responses are pretty priceless. 

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  • “What was the biggest lie you believed?” Posted by u/Fearless-surfur-ee

  • 01
    Font - HollyBerrysWake • 3d My dad got sick of having to listen to the kids shows I watched as a child, so he told me that the Power Rangers and Barney The Dinosaur died in the car crash with Princess Diana; so I couldn't watch them anymore. I didn't actually question it until I was quite old, embarrassingly. ... Reply 2.2k
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    "Jesus. We just tell our kids CocoMelon is broken on the TV." said u/resurrectionstoned.

    "Sorry, kids, JJ did 9/11." said u/KortniLa.

  • 02
    Font - ezzysalazar 4d ● The microwave will explode if I put my face too close to it while it's heating food. ... Reply 3.9k
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  • 03
    Font - censorized • 4d When I was very young we had a pet hamster. He got out of his cage, so my dad put the cage in the basement thinking he might get hungry and get back in. One morning I woke up and there was the hamster in his cage in the usual place. I asked my mom how they found him and she told me she opened the door to the cellar and there he was dragging his cage back upstairs. It wasn't until I was a teenager and remembered the exchange that it occurred to me she obviously made that up
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    Font - samivat 4d ● 3 Awards On April Fools while I was getting ready for school on a cold winter day, my mom told me "School is cancelled! It's a snow day!" I ran around for a good 2 minutes celebrating before she told me "April Fools!" I've never felt so betrayed in my life. ... Reply 36.3k
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    Font - cloysterss 3d 2 Awards As a little kid, dad told me that there was a greek god of sex called Fellatio. I'd never heard the word before. Then, freshman year of highschool, took a mythology class and asked the teacher, in class, why we hadn't talked about Fellatio. Silence. "you know, the god of sex?" I'm cringing hard just typing this out.... got a nice little talk after class and dad almost peed his pants laughing that night. edit: thanks for the love for my dad! He was always pulling bul
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    Font - Tonyracs • 3d 1 Award I had dumped some gasoline in an Arizona tea bottle to get a fire started. My sister seen me pour it on fire and she freaked thinking Arizona ice tea was flammable. I went along with it saying "ya you didn't know that? That's why Its called Arizona because how hot it gets there." She was 20 yrs old. Around 5 years later we are camping and she says who's got some Arizona I can use to start this campfire. I looked at ther and didn't understand. She explained I told her
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  • 07
    Font - josevilla7. 4d My mom told me when I was 5 and my favourite dog died that it doesn't matter that dogs die, because in 7 years they respawn. So I was like "oh, fine, see you then bud, I will be older and we will play again". Reply 20.9k
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    "Ok I'm so sorry but I can't help laughing 'Respawn' LMAO" said u/DannyOfNowhere.

    "Man was hitting up smash brothers I guess" said u/magww.

    "I have a memory of my mom saying something similar about my grandfather. She might have been talking about the afterlife but my child brain was like why are you burying them? How will we hear them wake up?" said u/the_angry_wizard "Edit: I'm just realising this might be the source of my claustrophobia"

  • 08
    Font - Poodles McNoodles • 4d Our family were poor and lived in a house where the ceiling plaster had bowed so much that it bowed down, bulging out. My dad told me that there was a World War II bomb buried in the ceiling. Believed it for years, absolutely terrified the entire time. Reply 14.5k
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    "And if you make too much noise the bomb will fall and explode" added u/nachochips140807.

  • 09
    Font - Eldhannas • 4d That my dad moved out and rented a room in the house of a female friend for tax reasons. Reply 18.6k ....
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  • 10
    Font - secondphase • 3d When I was a kid, my dad told me I made the BEST cold glasses of ice water. Nobody could make ice water quite like me. So, sure... He could get off the couch and get himself a glass of water, but since I was better at it, that burden fell to me. ... Reply 392
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    Font - Ostrichman975 • 3d It's illegal to turn on the dome light while the vehicle is moving. Turns out it's just annoying as hell. Reply 1.6k ...
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    "The driver is the captain. The captain makes the laws" said u/Strokin4U2C.

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    Rectangle - CC -HIGH-C-4d 1 Award I was a Mormon for way too long. ... Reply 1.2k
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  • 13
    Rectangle - DarthCleveland • 3d That Marilyn Manson got a rib removed so he could suck his own penis. 8th grade me believed this to my core .... Reply 414
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  • 14
    Rectangle - yukipurple 4d ● 4 Awards That adults knew what they were doing. ... Reply 8.6k
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  • 15
    Rectangle - McGamers56. 4d 1 Award That acne would only be a problem when i was a teenager ... Reply 8.6k
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  • 16
    Font - _Goose_4d Outside of dumb lies your parents tell you as kids, my friend who worked at a gas station with a big food station that has some ground beef items told me they use kangaroo meat for their ground beef because it was cheaper than cow. I am gullible with my friends. ... Reply 11.7k
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    Font - YenSwallows • 4d Half Life 3 being released..... someday. *cries in never* Reply 1.2k
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