I was convinced that there was a city in The Netherlands called Hamsterdam and that was where hamsters came from.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think that people from the Netherlands spoke NethishAnon
- I used to believe that electricity was manufactured in a factory in a place called 'Electriz City'.— Sally
- ...that ham came from hamsters.— Tom Raywood
- I used to believe that ham came from hamsters.— Paul
- I used to believe that male hamsters just had very big bottoms.— Karen
- i used to believe Amster dam was a dam made out of hamstersAnon