My Dad told us that Bodmin Beacon (a granite war memorial in Cornwall) was Cornwall's "Coal-fired space rocket", and that it just never got off the ground. We believed him.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that rocket ran on gasoline and that in order to save gas, we should end the space program.Anon
- As a child I believed that when a person was fired from their job, they were executed on a firing range. — damien
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- i used to believe that coal from stockings was santa's poop because i was bad— dylan mcdonald
- I used to believe that cars were propelled by their exhaust like some kind of rocket.Anon