Whenever my room was messy my mother would say, "This place looks like a cyclone struck it!" For years I thought there was such a thing as a "cyclone-strukkit".
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- When I was about four or five, I used to think that a "cyclone" and a "cyclops" were the same thing.Anon
- I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.Anon
- When i was little i used to think that a birth mark was the place on the body where you came out of the mother— bipbop
- I used to believe that when lightening struck at night, it was turning the world into day for a few seconds. — Kristine
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- For about 3 years, I thought that chili and salsa were the same thing.Anon