THINGS MY OLDER SIBLINGS TOLD ME WERE TRUE

(September, 2022) BuzzFeed Community shared some of the wildest things they believed because an older sibling told them it was true:
– “When we first got our family dog, I was only 7 years old, and my older brother was 17. I thought my dog ‘didn’t blink enough.’ So, my brother convinced me that she was blinking when I was blinking. I had staring contests with the dog for at least two weeks before our parents told me to stop bothering it.”
* “I was told that I could fly if I really tried hard enough and that one way is to hold your breath because the air will make you lighter. I’d hold my breath and get dizzy after holding it for so long. I didn’t know what dizzy or lightheaded meant, so I thought I was making progress with flying.”
– “When my brother was 12 and I was 7, he told me that I was an alien because I was the only one in the family with brown eyes and everyone else had green. I cried for a couple of hours until my mom made him apologize.”
– “I told my younger sister that she was the spitting image of the Greek goddess of beauty ‘Herpes,’ and she went to school and told people all day that she looked like Herpes.”
– “My middle sister and I convinced our very gullible youngest sister that an alligator lived under her bed that was going to come out and eat her. As she was freaking out, our dad told her that our yellow lab ate the alligator. She believed that, too.”
– “My brother saw an edited photo of Micheal Jackson in a Barney costume. He showed me the photo and then successfully convinced me that Michael Jackson played Barney and they had to cancel the show when he died. I believed this until I was about 11 years old.”
– “My mom has old picture frames with black and white stock photos in them, and my older brother and sister convinced me that they were our old relatives.”
– “My sister would have us play Trading Spaces where we would clean and redesign each other’s room. I would genuinely put in the effort; my sister would sit in my room and watch TV.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What did your siblings do to torture you?