I used to believe that if there was an earthquake, a hole would open right under my feet, and I would fall to the center of the earth, and the hole would then close, thus, trapping me inside the earth forever. ( Cuz' it's happened in movies!) I soon realized that this is VERY unlikely.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- I once thought a vent in my hotel room led down to the center of the earth.— flarn2006
- I used to believe that earthquakes happened because the earth was farting. — Amanda
- i thought if you went to the bottom of the earth you would fall off.— Tiffany Amber Stefanko
- When I was younger, I thought I could run and fall off the edge of the earth. Anon
- I used to believe that we lived inside the earth!— Natalie Howley