When I first saw film footage of an earthquake, I believed that the earth split apart right around the world and people and cars fell in to the centre of the earth before it closed again.
I used to imagine falling into the crack and not being able to climb back out before it closed on me.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that there was only one lighthouse in the world and it was at the centre of the earth. Anon
- I used to believe that sattelite dishes were used to shot down falling meteors that fell to earth.Anon
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- When I was a child I believed that if I fell off the earth I would end up on the Plante of The Apes.— IslandGirlie
- I used to think that if I closed my eyes other people couldn't see me.Anon
- I used to believe that if I closed one eye, the people on that side couldn't see me.— KM