When I was about 4 or so years old and my parents took me to the beach, my mom told me that if you dig under the sand really deep you can reach China. So I believed that China was underneath all beaches and if you dug really deep you'd be on top of China and could reach it.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL
- I used to think China and Japan where the same.— Lunarmoon
- When I was in kindergarten, I was convinced I could dig my way out of a sandbox and off to China.Anon
- when i was young i used to think japan and china were the same country— i like star wars
- I used to think that Hadrian also built the Great Wall of China.— Spacey