When I was little I thought that lighting could travel through the ground and zap me in the house, and that if my feet were anywhere near the ground it would get me. So if a storm hit i had to have my feet elevated off my bed by my foot stool.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.— Helen
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- when i was4 and a half i thought i would be 5 feet in kindergarten— Katrina S.