When i was about 5 up until i was about 7 i used to believe that New York was on the other side of the mountains. So everytime my family and i went on a trip to the mountains i use to always say "yeah i'm going to New York!" Then wonder why we never ended up there later.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"Anon
- when i was young i used to believe that the sun goes down behind the mountains into the earth— confused
- I used to think that mountains were actually buried dinosaurs.— Jena
- I used to think that indents in mountains were the footprints of dinosaurs. — Emily
- I used to believe that mountains were giant camels that God put under the earth.— flip4smith
- That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.— Christophe Chang