When I first learned about fossils in early grade school I thought I could go into the far back yard and carefully place a leaf on a rock and in a few days it would become a fossil.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- There was a popular rumor back in grade school that BUBBLE YUM gum was made with spider eggs.— Amber
- My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- I believed until near adulthood that when I was 6 or 7 I had actually flown for several feet in my back yard. — Jane S Poole
- back in the days i thought the world was black and white like in the pictures— compaq
- When I was a kid I thought if I bit my finger off and swallowed it it would pop back into place— Mike