Earthquakes were when a huge cavernous crack opened in the earth. It swallowed everyone and everything near it, and then closed up again.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that earthquakes happened because the earth was farting. — Amanda
- When I was little my uncle had a huge adams apple. He told me he'd swallowed a marble.— Stacey
- That if I stepped on a crack on a sidewalk that I would get abducted by aliensAnon
- I believed God lived in a specific crack in one of the walls of my church — Blake
- I used to believe that if I opened my eyes too much, they could pop outAnon
- I used to believe that when I closed my eyes, nobody could see me. — Jens