When I was 5 or 6, my mom and my aunt would watch the Watergate hearings with me in the room, and they loved making fun of Sen. Lowell Weicker because he would move his eyebrows up and down. They called him Wacky Weicker. So for years I thought there was a U.S. senator actually named Wacky Weicker.
Oh, and I used to believe Watergate was about a gate that held back water. I had no idea it was the name of an office building until I was in my early teens.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.— Ginger
- my aunt used to tell me that pinapples made your eyebrows grow. i believed it till i was about 10.— Anna
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon
- I once thought that there were little mice under the wheel on Wheel of Fortune making the wheel move— Kara
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny