I used to believe that the thunder in the sky was a sign of war between god and devil
15 Reddit Users Shared the Innocent Stories They Believed When They Were Kids

When you’re a kid, there’s something that almost never happens: getting bored. Even when you start feeling like it’s going to happen, you manage to find something to do or another kid to play with, and most of the time, those are the best memories that we keep from our childhood. Because when we’re young and we have to be creative, there are no limits. So much so, that after a few years, we grow older and we remember some of the things we believed back then and we cannot restrain ourselves from laughing.
Bright Side loves to make you laugh and remember special moments, so with a little help from this thread that was posted on Reddit, we made a compilation of some of the funniest (and naive) things people believed when they were younger. We have to admit we had a laugh while writing this article and we hope you will too!
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What was the craziest thing you believed when you were still a naive child? Let us know in the comments!
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