Living in Ohio as a little kid, I heard stuff about Tornadoes (they "fly" around, you gotta hide in the basement, they throw stuff around and are very dangerous and big). I believed, then, that a tornado was a gigantic flying Bug.
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- I used to believe a tornado was a omato flying around and wondered why people were afraid of them.Anon
- I used to think that a tornado was a tomato and lots of tomato juice would got flying around.— sam
- When I was very young, I believed that houses were carved out of one gigantic block of wood.— tinmanjones
- I used to think that robbers had keys to every house and that's how they got in to take your stuff— Emma
- I used to believe if I concentrated hard enough I could move stuff.
*sigh*
— Zog - I used to think that sharks were dolphins who were really mean on steroids and ridiculous stuff like that.— Tyler Leber