My friends and I actually believed that once you buried fake gold, you could dig it up a day later and it was real. We tried to sell a bunch we dug up to pasisng cars in front of our friend's house.
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- I believed that I had a fake right big toe, having lost my real one in the plug holder (thanks Helen!)— Mike
- I used to believe that I was the only real person in the world and that everyone else were fake things!— supermk342
- i believe that using gold give electric shock at the time of lightning.so i didnot wear gold when rain starts.— asi18
- I used to belive that there was gold in my nose because pepole would always say that i was "diggin' for gold"!— addicted nose picker
- I used to believe, driving in front of all the other cars on the highway, Knight Rider was leading the pack.— Michael Kolassa
- My jew friend told me god was real , and i believed itAnon