My 7 year old daughter was watching the news with me when they mentioned that the Mir Space Station would be "crashing down tonight". She was almost hysterical, certain that it was going to fall directly on her bed.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- My 5 year old daughter believes if she picks her nose her bum will fall off !!Anon
- My sister used to think that there was an oil well under every gas station that led directly to the gas pump.Anon
- I used to believe the Wall Street Crash of 1929 was a literal car crashing into a bank.Anon
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- When I heard "Don't Come Out Tonight(Bad Moon on the Rise), I thought they were saying Bathroom on the Right.— helen.sellers
- 'I've got candy in my ears tonight, baby'.
~Canned Heat, Jimiroquai.— Nin