I believed there really was a Santa living in the North Pole until I was 15 (and found out by accident because of snooping in my parents' bedroom for something). All the santas at the mall and department stores were really his elves that he used magic on to make big and had great memory so they could tell the real Santa what we wanted when they magicked back to the North Pole every night.
A childhood belief about father christmas

others believed things like this
- I thought Santa was the President of the North Pole. It was stupid I know
lol— Lynn Wright - I used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...— Logica
- When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole. — Sara
- I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p