“What’s the maddest thing someone got you to believe?” – 17 absolute shockers

10.

My dad took my sister to a woodland play sorta place when she was little. The hedge maze was closed and he told her it was because a group of schoolchildren had got lost in there for a week. She only found out this was a lie when she repeated the harrowing story, age 18.

— Michael Mills (@call_me_kenneth) November 17, 2021

11.

My great uncle convinced me that he had the top half of his index finger chopped off by Lawrence of Arabia, during a duel in the desert.

— Neilly 🇦🇷 Gallinitaaaaa (@neillyfabi) November 17, 2021

12.

I told my daughter when she was about 7 that popadoms were made with hamsters. Apparently it caused quite a stir when she told fellow students at medical school.

— Tony Harvey (@TonyHarvey8) November 17, 2021

13.

Someone convinced me that a structural flaw in the design of the Bitexco Tower in Ho Chi Minh City meant that if a helicopter ever landed on its helipad, the entire building would topple over. I told people this for years. It is not true, helicopters land on it all the time. pic.twitter.com/jQ2HdCpi8O

— Joz Norris (@JozNorris) November 16, 2021

14.

My brother @Rik_kane convinced me as a child that all leisure parks were lawless lands where any crime could be committed without repercussion. I believed this until I was about 14.

— LJK (@ellejayekaye) November 17, 2021

15.

My dad told me we share 99% of our DNA with cress and I went into work and told everyone.

— Satu (@satufox) November 17, 2021

16.

My Grandad told me (as a joke and hadn’t realised I believed it) that bees make honey and wasps make jam. I believed it until I was at least 11 or 12 and was very embarrassed when called out on it when I tried to explain it to some friends.

— Alex (@JudgeDewie) November 17, 2021

17.

When Tom Baker’s Doctor said “Eureka is Greek for “this bath is too hot” I believed it.

— Mark Hill (@Hillarymark) November 17, 2021

Of course, some people are less gullible than others.

That covid doesn't exist and Bill Gates is trying to implant everyone with a tracking device..

Oh hang on I don't think I actually fell for that one as I'm not an idiot.

— Lulu (@Mmelulu) November 17, 2021

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