Growing up in northern California I used to believe an Earthquake was a bird like a huge woodpecker that would land on the outside of your house and shake it. During an earthquake I would ask to go outside and see it.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when there was an earthquake, rocks would fall from the sky.— Nai
- I used to believe that if you didn't eat your crust on the bread, there would be an earthquake.Anon
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- Maryland was actually a huge amusement park, i.e. Merry-Land, like Disneyland. — Julianne
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- I thought the song Hotel California by the Eagles said "Welcome to Oakdale California— JewLea