Begin a big fan of Stephen King when I was a kid, I came across the word 'mausoleum', and wondered what the purpose was. I asked my mom (who obviously got the word confused with 'asylum'), and she informed me that mausoleums were where they 'locked up all the crazy people'. For years after, whenever we drove past a cemetary, I would listen for the hoots and howls of the crazy folks locked inside he little stone buildings.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- I thought an asylum seeker was a crazy person who checked in to an asylum on purpose.— Nate
- I thought that asylum seekers were people who were mad and wanted to find an asylum.— Little Penguin
- i used to believe that if i crawl under my bed i would be locked in. like a jail.— K.N.C
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- King Henry VIII was named “the eighth” by his dad because the first seven didn’t listen!— Mojo