I realized that there were tons of cracks in the cement and asphault right about the same time that the space ship Challenger blew up. For many years I was convinced that the explosion caused the cracks.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- When I was a kid I was convinced that the world would end by a nucleur explosion. — Marshall M
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully