When I was young my parents let me watch Terminator 2. Somewhere in the film it said the whole world would end in 1997. I believed this to be true until 1997 came and nothing happened.
A childhood belief about films

others believed things like this
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo
- I used to believe that an animated film meant that the film had live animals in it.— reverb
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!
- when i was young i thought that a giant made the world slowly spin!— ~kassie~
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM