When My cousin and I were kids, he told me that "IceCapades" (a live ice skating show that you could go see) was really gross and had lots of naked people. It wasn't until years later that I realized that he had confused IceCapades with "Escapades" (an adult cable network).
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- i told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette
- when i was 5 i used to think that people only live for 10 years and i thought that my parents were 7.Anon
- I used to believe jaywalking meant walking around naked in public (from naked as a JAY bird...)— Izzi
- I thought that every TV show was filed live, and I always wondered why they never messed up.— Steve
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania