I used to belief that a hurricane was a giant crab that emerged from the sea (from time to time) and ate people.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- I thought Hurricane Dennis (in 2005) and the character Dennis from the Spongebob movie were related somehow.Anon
- That an undertow was a giant toe under the water that grabbed people and pulled them under.— mikita Jones
- When I was a little girl, I used to believe that there were little people behind on TV moving all the time — Tayde
- last time when the television was on i thought the people were performing in it -.-
— irritated kid - for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again