When I was younger, my brother told me that smokestacks in big industries made the clouds and that inside these buildings were little elves that worked continuously to keep the clouds coming. I was so amazed at this that every time we passed one I'd stare so I could catch a glimpse of an elf. I found out about 4 years later that clouds were not made there and no elves were hired to make them.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- All clouds came from smokestacks.— Paul
- I am sure I can't be the only one, but I thougth smokestacks were where clouds came from. — Cool Site
- when i was younger i believed that clouds were made from the smoke stacks — lisa
- When I was a kid, I used to believe a nuclear plant was a clouds plant and could make magic clouds.— Tommy
- I used to believe that when it would be raining the white clouds lost to the dark clouds.— janet
- My little brother once asked my mother when we past a couple of factories.. if the factories made clouds— nicky