There was a storm drain behind my elementary school that looked an awful lot like a cannon when we were in third grade. After seeing it, I believed that Revolutionary War was refought every night behind my school, and that the soldiers kept accidentally forgetting to take the cannon back with them during the day.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- When I was in elementary school, I believed my heart moved across my chest throughout the day.— Allison
- There was a popular rumor back in grade school that BUBBLE YUM gum was made with spider eggs.— Amber
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- One of my friends in elementary school thought that Osama bin Laden was "a son of Aladdin". Anon