Child me thought that Los Angeles was a mythical city like Atlantis or El Dorado. Because I misheard how it was named and thought it was called "Lost Angeles"...as in "the lost city of Angeles."
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United StatesAnon
- I used to think that New Orleans was in Los Angeles, because I'd seen addresses written "New Orleans, LA".— Hilary
- I used to believe that electricity was manufactured in a factory in a place called 'Electriz City'.— Sally
- i thought that if water towers fell the city would flood. So everynight i would stay up worrying.— o.O haku
- I thought that the song "Built this City" by starship went as follows. "Milk and Cereal, Rock and Roll"Anon
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj