My mother once told me that a long time ago, unicorns existed. They were simply extinct because poachers killed them for their horns. I believed this until around 5th grade.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie - I used to beleive that unicorns really existed, and they had them at the Safari Park!— Julio Foolio
- Up until the 5th grade, I thought that all Egyptians were extinct. — Amy x
- When I was little I believed that only Spain existed — Khadija El Hattabe
- When I was a child, I believed that the little mouse Perez existed.— David Montoya Velez
- "dildo is an extinct bird"
my 18 year old friend fell for that.— pebblezzz