When I lived in San Francisco as a child, I asked my aunt why the fog horns blew every night and she told me they used them to blow the fog off the Golden Gate Bridge! I was able to go to sleep comforted by that thought.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- until i was seven i beleived that the witch from the wizord of oz lived behind a gate behined my book shelf— preston
- When I was a child and the wind blew strong I used to believe that someone was hiding under the bed.— FER
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.— Christophe Chang
- When I was six I thought that when all puppies grew up they turned into golden labradors. — Marieka
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon