At school they taught us about earthquakes in Geography. I then imagined people falling in to these holes opening up in the ground and then the ground closing again on top of them. I constantly worried about this happening and was nervous every time a lorry or train rumbled by, thinking this is it. Unfortunately they forgot to tell us that this was extremely unlikely in the North West of England.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you dreamed you were falling and you hit the ground, you'd die in your sleep.— Knoot
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- I remember back in sunday school that if you stomped on the ground you would hurt satan. Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL