My grandmother was born in Transylvania. When I was young and she told me stories about life there, I used to think that that was a state next to Pennsylvania!
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.— Pencil-vania
- when I was young, I thought Denmark was a state, just like Deleware and North Dakota.— valerie
- I used to think Dracula was from Pennsylvania.Anon
- I used to believe that the Lehigh tunnel in Pennsylvania was created by Superman.— Holz
- I used to think that because there was a state called Washington, there was also a state called Dryington.— Jasonchic
- When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.Anon