• From static electricity being love energy
to a neighbor’s fence being the Great Wall
of China, the Planet Dolan crew re-enact more
of the best true stories from our subreddit
about the dumbest things we believed as kids.
I’m Hellbent and today I’ll be your narrator.
Number 10 was submitted by rainbowbaby63734
Andiemations
A lot of kids think clouds are made of cotton
candy, but Andiemations had an even weirder
explanation.
She thought all the clouds in the sky were
specially made inside factories.
Every morning she’d see white smoke coming
out the tops of factories as she was driven
to school.
That was where she thought the clouds came
from.
She once even got into an argument with her
teacher about it!
Number 9 was submitted by dawsondall Tolop
When Tolop was a kid his parents took him
shopping every Sunday, but Tolop would always
run off alone to his favourite stores.
He loved everything about shopping – except
the creepy mannequins they had in clothing
stores.
Tolop’s dad eventually got sick of him running
off all the time, so he told Tolop that mannequins
were once bad children who’d run away from
their parents.
As punishment, they’d lost their faces and
were frozen for the rest of their lives.
This traumatized the hell out of Tolop and
he spent the next few years doing everything
he was told.
He continued to believe mannequins were cursed
children until he was sixteen, and even today
they still creep him out.
Number 8 was submitted by Mountainking2941
Grgak
When Grgak was five years old, he was a really
fussy eater.
He refused to eat any fruit – especially
grapes.
So Grgak’s sister came up with a genius
plan.
She told him there was a nerve in the back
of his tongue that made everything taste like
chocolate.
As soon as Grgak heard this he ran to the
fridge looking for some food to test it out.
The only thing they had in the house was Grgak’s
arch-nemesis: grapes.
He didn’t want grapes, but he did want chocolate.
So he reluctantly ate a grape.
He immediately realized that his sister’s
chocolate nerve story was total bullshit.
But he also discovered that grapes weren’t
that bad.
He was too picky to try them before, but he
quickly decided he liked them.
Number 7 was submitted by xxbutterflybandigexx
HoneyBits
When HoneyBits was little she overheard the
phrase “don’t waste your breath” and
took it literally.
She believed everyone had a limited amount
of air in their bodies and would die when
it ran out.
So HoneyBits decided to be careful not to
waste her breath.
Her parents and teachers worried that she’d
gotten really quiet, but HoneyBits was just
thinking she wanted to prolong her own life!
Number 6 was submitted by ArtificialCrab Nixxiom
In second grade Nixxiom had a strange theory
about static shocks.
He thought that if you touched someone and
they shocked you, it meant they had a secret
crush on you.
He figured a shock was just “love energy”
passing from person to person.
One day Nixxiom’s best friend passed by
me and gave him a little shock of static electricity.
Nixxiom freaked out, thinking that his friend
had secret feelings for him.
He spent half of recess carefully explaining
to that he just wanted them to remain friends.
His friend was obviously confused, and had
to explain to Nixxiom: that was not how static
shocks worked.
Number 5 was submitted by EuphoricBrick SweetCommando
SweetCommando’s dad was very religious and
took the “no sex till marriage thing”
very seriously.
He told SweetCommando that if he ever kissed
a girl before he was married they would contract
an S.T.D. and be dead in a week.
He even said that the actors on TV had a special
barrier they put on their lips.
SweetCommando believed this until he was 13.
That’s how old he was when a girl surprised
him and kissed him in mid-conversation.
SweetCommando freaked out and told his older
brother.
His brother fell to the floor laughing before
he told SweetCommando the truth.
Number 4 was submitted by ChucklesLikedDuckles
Pandora
When Pandora was six, she thought the entire
Planet Earth was just the things around her
neighborhood.
One time she saw a house she’d never seen
before and thought, ‘That must be that China
place my parents are always talking about!’
She thought the big fence around it was the
Great Wall of China and that their swimming
pool was the ocean!
The owner of this house was overweight, so
Pandora spent the next few years believing
Chinese people were all fat men.
Number 3 was submitted by TallGlassofShutUp
Dolan
Dolan’s always had some pretty crazy beliefs,
but as a kid he actually thought cats and
dogs were the same animal, just different
genders.
His family owned a male dog, so Dolan just
assumed all dogs were males.
He thought cats were so dainty that they had
to be all girls.
He actually believed this for most of his
childhood.
In the end, Melissa had to sit him down and
explain the difference.
Number 2 was submitted by CaptainKoala654
Pringle
When Pringle was little he had a strange theory
about how babies are made.
He believed to create new life, people had
to do a bunch of weird stuff with the opposite
gender.
And they had to do it in this exact order
or it wouldn’t work.
First, the man and the woman had to sit down
and hug for exactly five seconds.
They then had to get up, kiss each other,
and then lie back down and cover themselves
with a yellow blanket.
It had to be yellow, otherwise they’d just
be wasting their time.
After that the man and woman had to go straight
to sleep.
When they woke up they’d have their very
own screaming newborn.
Number 1 – What’s the dumbest thing I
believed as a kid?
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