When I was 8 I thought that James Madison built a secret passage behind the famous picture of G. Washington he rescued. I thought Presidents kept secret stuff back there and that G W Bush kept a guy locked up in there among other things.
A childhood belief about history

others believed things like this
- I used to think that James Bond and all the other secret agents worked for MFI.— John C
- When I was young,I thought the lyrics "Secret Agent man" were actually "Secret Asian Man".— M.M.B.
- i thought that our cats were secret spies for my parents and i would never do anything bad around them. Anon
- i really thought that "key" was a secret letter to the alphabet that only i knew.— amber
- I thought my aunt was Tina Turner actually, but she is keeping this as a secret...
— sel - i thought president Bush was an actuall bush.— oops