When I was a kid I believed that if there was a crack in the dirt, (like where a mud puddle or pond used to be,) it meant that if there was an earthquake then that was where the earth was going to open up and swallow people.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- I used to believe that toilets would open and swallow you up because they got dirty!!— swallowing toilet
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- I believed God lived in a specific crack in one of the walls of my church — Blake
- I used to think people were made of dirt and mayonnaise. I kind of rememeber picking this up at church.— julia
- i used to think stigmata meant the really clear, white sunbeams that you could see reaching down to the earth.— lora