After studying meteors at school I was sure that a meteor was going to land on our house. After a week of sleepless nights my mum asked my teacher to tell us that this is very unlikely to actually happen.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that sattelite dishes were used to shot down falling meteors that fell to earth.Anon
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- I used to think that
"The land of make believe"
was
"The land of baked beans."— Baked Bean! - I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-landAnon