There was a concrete factory we would drive by on our way to the grocery store. Until I was 9 I thought that it and all other factories in the world's only purpose was to make clouds.

Anon

When i was was a kid i used to think that clouds were actually space ships fighting over earth and that rain happened when ever one got destroyed.

Anon

I used to think that if you went to the bottom of the Earth (the south pole), you would fall off into space and float around there.

Sasha

We lived near a lake when I was a boy. My older brothers, who all swam well, told my younger brother and me that there was a sandbar in the middle of the lake, and that it was where all the snapping turtles lived. They said if I ever tried to swim across the lake and tried to stand up on the sandbar, or even let my kicking feet get near the bottom, the snapping turtles would bite onto me, would never let go, and I would drown.

A few years later, when I finally figured I was strong enough to swim across the lake, I nearly panicked when I got tired near the middle. I'm so glad I learned the elementary backstroke in the Scouts! I wouldn't let myself stop, made it all the way across, and all the way back.

To this day, I still have a irrational fear (though one I can get past) of being bitten by a snapping turtle when I'm wading or swimming in lakes and rivers (and I'm 39)!

Andrew

When i was about 5 or 6 i thought that all the atmosphere was held down by the ozone layer. i always worried about spaceships popping it or the shock wave from an atomic bomb letting air out.

Anon

I used to believe that lighting and thunder in the sky meant God was angry. I thought the rain falling was God crying. I also believed that the moon was God's eye watching us and the stars were all the people in heaven and a shooting star was someone going to heaven. My mom always told me that when it thundered, the angels were moving furniture around and that's why it is so loud.

Anon

I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.

Anon

I believed that if I would blow in a certain direction, a strong wind would circle the entire earth and come from behind me in a few days.

JoJo

My brother told me that the bush in my neighbors yard had an indian living in it that would jump out and attack you when you walked by. I sprinted past that thing for 5 years until they finally cut it down.

Liza