I used to think that electricity came from the ground in the form of endless lightning bolts (yellow zigzag lines underground). There was absolutely no doubt in my mind about that, so I never asked anyone until I just learned about it.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I used to believe electricity came from lightning.Anon
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- I used to believe that the solid double yellow lines on highways were the motorcycle lane.— jeech
- I believed that the gap between the double yellow lines in the road was a special lane for motorcycles.— Joel
- When I was a child, I used to know that using cheques you could spend an endless amount of money— lollo
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon