This is quite sad. A friend of mine, in high school, thought that Alaska was an island surrounded by a box in the Pacific Ocean.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Alaska was an island!— Draqula
- i used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- I thought that wars had to last four years... just like high school and college.— A. Falk
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- Until junior high school, I thought Monty Python was a wrestler.— Jamie