I dug a hole in my backyard as a kid and found some shards of old broken dishware. I honestly believed that this is what people meant when they spoke of "digging a hole to China" and assumed I had done so.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- Until about 2nd grade, I thought they spoke Spanish in China.Anon
- When i was little my older brother said rocks grew in your poop, so i went digging and never found anyAnon
- I used to believe that a cat's butt hole was on the tip of his tail.— PANTS
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....— Tina