When I was 7, there was a speical about asteriods, since there was one that was passing by Earth. I didn't understand it correctly, and I thought the asteriod was going to hit Earth and kill everyone. So I bothered my father daily to make a basement to protect us, and when he told me 'no', I made my own fort and would spend all day looking for any asteriods in the sky.

Jennifer S.

A friend of mine believed that planets could become pregnant and give birth to new planets. She claimed that she saw a planet-birth on TV.

Needless to say, I was rather confused by hearing this, and spent the next few months wondering whether or not I should believe her. :-)

Jackie F

I used to believe that on the Fourth of July, when they did fireworks, that they were shooting rockets into space and blowing up stars. I would scream and cry because I was scared that the stars pieces would smush me.

Halana

until i was 7 or 8, i believed i could see the earth spinning on its axis. i eventually learned it was just the clouds moving, and was utterly devastated.

astrid

When I was young I had a plan to shoot big piles of paper up to the sun so it would never burn out.

Waterbottle

And when I was little I believed that the Moon was really the Earth and there no Moon at all. My mom then confronted me with this question: if that is the Earth, and there is no moon, what are we standing on? I patiently explained to her that there is a huge ziplock baggy hanging from the moon with dirt in it -- and that is what we were standing on.

John T

My younger brother used to be afraid of shooting stars. This is because he thought that if you eyed a shooting star, it would actually shoot you with a gun!

kelsey

I used to believe that when it is night time and the Stars are flashing, they are taking pictures of you. Then when you get to Heaven you get to see a photo album of your life under the stars.

StudlyChris (Phoenix)

I have no idea why, but I thought that the constellation Orion would shoot us with arrows when he was in the sky. We were safe as long as we were in a building or vehicle; but when we got out of the car to go into our house, it was risky. I used to anxiously watch the stars whilst my dad unlocked the door, hoping we'd get inside in time.

Rachel J.

I used to believe that Sometimes when you looked in the sky at night you would see the Earth up there. Just like the moon!

Tyler

My brother believed that the moon was a "Western world" because it looked black and white, like an old western television show.

Jeremy - in Austin

By seeing small circle at the bottom of the World Map representing the Poles, i used to believe that astronauts go out of earth through that hole.

Phoenix

One day a friend and I were playing in my backyard when we found a tomato worm. For those of you that have never seen one of these it looks like a large, green and thorny caterpiller. But We thought it was a baby alien and squished it with a stick before it could take over our brains

JewLea

A childhood friend confessed to me that she used to think the stars in the sky were from a gigantic American flag that would cover the sun at night like a window shade. For some reason, only the blue starry part would cover her neighborhood but other places were covered by the red and white stripes.

Anon

I used to believe, after many discussions with my older brother, that prawns came from the planet Mars... and that is how the planet got its colour.

Bungle

I thought the sky was a mirror and that when I looked up at the moon it was really earth and I used to wave to myself.

chrissie24

When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun

Helen

I used to believe that when the cow "jumped over the moon", he milked on it so that's why the moon was white..and was made of cheese because milk was in the moon.

kc

I believed for the longest time that that huge fireworks couldn't just explode in the sky. That wouldn't do it. I really believed that they had to hit a star before they could explode. I was amazed at how fast the fireworks reached them.

jenna

I used to believe that a new sun crossed the sky every day and set down into a pile of old suns just over the big hill to the west. They were left to cool off and then sliced up to make margarine.

Bikernerd