What stupid things have you been told and believed?

I used to be far too gullible but even after wising up in the last few years I got duped a couple of years ago! After telling my other half how my Dad used to tease my Mum by making her believe weird stuff like the existence of 'cheese frogs' he (my other half) tried it on me, it's a long story but basically whilst looking through an OK magazine at a celebrity wedding there was pictures of ponies dressed as unicorns, with horns stuck to their head and everything. I commented on how cruel that was and he spent a good while trying to convince me they were actually real and acted in complete disbelief that I didn't know this! Eventually when I challenged him to say where they lived and why I haven't heard of them, he told me they lived in the mountains of Saudi Arabia and are native to there so aren't seen elsewhere, for about 2 seconds I actually started to believe him, until he burst out laughing

I have loads of stories like that that will probably come back to me but that is one of the most embarrassing I always remember

What's yours?

Oh I knew I'd start remembering more...when I was younger and we'd go to an Indian Restaurant my Dad used to tell me the round bits in Bombay Mix were elephants eyes

Hm.. I'll think of one soon.

Once at school someone told me friend she had a rat on her head. She freaked out and started screaming "GET IT OFF!!"

even though of course there was no rat. Amusing, to say the least.. she's the most gullible person I've ever known.

That my uncle was Steve McQueen.

I bet you were gutted when you found out it wasn't true.

Someone in uni convinced us their uncle was John Hannah, I was so jealous as it was around the time of The Mummy films and I loved him in those... thank god he was just a lying d***! The person who convinced us, not John Hannah!

My hubby, when I first met him, used to tell me all KINDS of crap, that gullible me believed. lol
He'd say it with such sincerity! Am too embarrassed to list most; but one was, that marshmallows were actually made using soap scum. He went through this whole long winded explanation, and I came out from not believing to totally believing He is really good at this sort of thing...Until I bought a bag and checked the ingredients. (didn't have a computer back then )

That golden hamsters got their color because the breeder pissed on them all and the babies. Dad told me.

My brother used to tell me that about Mountain Dew soda; that it was pee that gave it it's color. I cried, and would never drink it again.

My step Dad has a sister called Victoria and when he was still just dating my Mum told me his sister was actually Posh Spice...and that he knew David Beckham. I REALLY believed him - I knew she had a brother, and I LOVED the Spice Girls, and ManU. I almost cried when he eventually told me he had made it up

Also, we told a friend that barnacles on the bottom of ships are just the ones who escape the barnacle farm...the rest are made into...something, I can't actually remember, but it must have been somewhat plausible, cause he believed us

That I was intelligent!

I believed it all the way.....

When I was little, my dad told me brown eggs were wholewheat and white were regular eggs. Brown cows made chocolate milk, white cows gave white milk and the black and white cows were in charge of the cheese.

On vacation one summer, when I was 12 and my sister was 9. We stopped at a diner. There was a Jackalope mounted on the wall. My sister and I were so awestruck that we believed the story about this Jackalope from the waitress.

Our parents went along with with the waitress was telling us, so we never doubted any of it.

About 30min or so after leaving the diner, my sister and I finally realized it was all made up.

Loving these stories, keep em comin!!

I was with some colleagues in a pub, having a quiet after work drink one evening a couple of years ago. My friend was talking about a guy we all know, who everybody nicknames "Spocky" on account of his... erm... ears.

Another guy standing nearby came over to us, saying he couldn't help overhearing and was interested in Spocky, being as how he was an avid Star Trek fan. My colleagues reeled this guy completely in, weaving an incredulous story, completely off the cuff, that "Spocky" was actually the Secretary of the Devon and Cornwall Star Trek Association and was in the process of organising a covention which was going to be attended by William Shatner, no less.

I had to keep quiet.... If I'd said anything, I'd have given the game away completely. They really reeled this dude in and had him believeing them completely. He asked how he could get in touch with Spocky, so they gave this guy Spocky's work phone number.

He drunk up and left, giving us the "Live Long and Prosper" signal. He was so happy, I didn't have the heart to break the spell.

The next time we saw Spocky he had a right strop on... complaining about some idiot who kept phoning him at work wanting to go to a Star Trek convention or something and he couldn't get rid of the bloke......

I said nothing. It was for the best.

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My Dad convinced me as a kid that HMS Belfast was a cardboard and paper mache model...