When I was about ten, my mother told me that my great-great grandmother's name had been Lois.
For some reason, I thought that meant my great-great grandmother was Lois Lane, and was impressed that someone I was related to had dated Superman.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- When I was in kindergarten, I thought the last line of "America" was "Great God our kid." — CC
- when the sign on the highway said do not pass and dad did i thought he would be in great dangerAnon
- I thought that FDR was an government organization during the Great Depression, not a president.Anon
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- When I was little I used to believe that God looked like the Great Gazoo (the alien from "The Flintstones").— Susan