When I was little, I was terrified of natural disaters like hurricanes and volcanoes. I asked my parents when I was really young if there could ever be an earthquake where we lived. They said no and gave me some kind of reason that I never remembered, but since then I always imagined that the people in our state had long ago placed this huge metal plate deep underground to prevent earthquakes, and I would sometimes wonder why places like California and Japan didn't do the same. I occasionally still have to remind myself that it's because of fault lines and not whether or not there are underground metal plates.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- I used to belief that mermaids lived in underground drains. Anon
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- I used to believe that a morman was a scary person who lived underground(actually called a moleman).— Mike
- I thought Oklahoma was a place in Japan (due to it weird name :P), and Japan gave it to USA later.— Luiz Alfonso