When my father told us about how he was imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo during the war, (WW2) I believed he once had been a criminal.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- My father told me that Spam was a mix of sparrow and ham. I believed this for years lol— Tara the Terror
- Until I was about 11 or 12 I thought that "prostitute" referred to a female criminal.Anon
- My father told me that Frenchmen had three legs.Anon
- When i was child, i used to think my father was my father christmas.— BeB's
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon
- My father told me if I farted, my head would cave in!— Jae