When i was young, i used to think that the borders of countries were actually thick concrete fences with barbed wire on top the stretched high into the sky. They would be guarded by men with guns and any thing or anyone entering or exiting, even planes!, had to be run by them and they would decide whether to open the gate for you.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I honestly believed that I would die before I reached high school. Anon
- I used to believe that, in cities, if you dug deep enough in anyone's lawn, eventually you'd hit the concrete.— Kevin Fox
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon
- I used to believe that thunder was aliens entering the atmosphere, and lightning was them firing lazers at us!— Zeepoo-zoop
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- I used to call croutons "concretes" because they were so crunchy, I thought they were made of concrete.— Scary Dream