When my parents tried to explain what an echo was, they didn't do very well. I thought it was an animal that lived in caves and mimicked you. I spent all our camping trips looking in cave to find the "echo"
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- My mum used to tell me she used to be a cave man and i believed it for years. Anon
- I used to believe that if you picked your nose then your head would cave in!— Sir Jared
- i used to believe that if you picked
your nose your brain would cave in...— mr bogtrotter - I used to think tht if you picked your nose too much, your head would cave in!— Chris
- Thanks to my Nan I believed if I picked my nose my head would "cave in!"— Tilly