When I was 6 or 7, my sister showed me a map of the world made of cardboard. When she pointed to Egypt, and she said, "That's Egypt. That's where all the mummies are." For the next few weeks I believed that mummies in Egypt would rise and come and kill everyone.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- i used to think that my dad got my mom [mummy] from egypt.. when i was like 7— ...
- I use to think that mummies were wrapped in toilet paper.— Glowworm
- i used to think that the world used to be black and white, cos that's what grandma's pictures showed me...— bgumm
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- When I was a child I used to belive that if I put on cardboard wings I could fly like a bird.Anon
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel