I used to believe Santa was a locally elected person who used municipal funds, a kid gift database, and a master key to all the homes in the city. I figured reindeer can't fly, and that it is implausible for 1 guy to get around the whole world in one night when it takes two days to get to Wyoming. And yet I had incontrovertible evidence of his existence in the form of a blue bike. I assumed they just put details about his election in the Metro section where no kid would ever see it, and he had a code name like "AlderMan."
A childhood belief about father christmas

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Santa Ana winds actually came from the city of Santa Ana, CA— Fishfood
- I used to believe that when you moved houses, you traded homes with the person whose house you're moving into.Anon
- I used to believe reindeer made it rain because for many years it rained on christmas eve night.Anon
- I used to believe that the "real" Santa Claus was at Macy's in New York City. All the rest were fakes. — Marcia
- My parents told me that Jesus visited Santa Claus when he was dead for three days. — Rick Hamell
- i used to believe that everytime we elected a president was because the old one died!!:)— angel