Until I was nine or ten I thought Jack The Ripper was a dude who went around ripping pages out of people's books....
Yeah, my mom laughed.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- When i was little for some reason i thought that all people from china knew karate.....yeah.— sneakydean
- My daughter thought Paul McCartney was singing "Hey Dude" instead of "Hey Jude". Anon
- I also thought that people in different countries coughed, sneezed, laughed, or cried in their own language!— Mini
- I thought Jack was a nickname for Jackery ( like Zack and Zachary).— Bootlebat
- I used to believe that Joseph of the OT and of the NT were the SAME dude.
Man, talk about being OLD!
— Kitty Lover - When I was little, I called the Pope "the dude with the godly hat".— Jessica Tinch