# What was the weirdest belief you ever personally held?

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> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> As a very little kid, I thought that Adolf Hitler had lived just across the street from our house.

[Heil Honey I'm Home! - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I%27m_Home)!

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> The first time I saw a DEAD END sign, I thought there was a pit ahead with skeletons crawling out. Never found them.

Thanks to the horribly inefficient traffic signals as a kid (in Cleveland), I thought mischievous if not malevolent leprechauns lived in the sewers near the light and deliberately changed the lights to promote maximum inconvenience (as they always seemed to flip red right before my mother got to the light).

I move back here as a retiree, and not much else has changed as 95% of the lights here remain on timers and not sensors. Bloody leprechauns.

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