I used to believe until a couple of months ago that Bulgaria was a fictional country, because that was where the horrible king and queen lived in the film 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- That the "Childcatcher" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang would come up the toilet + catch me while I was on it.— Kat
- I thought when the Big Bang happened it made an actual bang noise— Catte
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- I used to believe that my mum was the queen. She does look a bit like the queen... minus the orb and sceptre.— Vix
- When I was little, I used to believe that Illinois (where I lived) was a countryAnon
- I used to believe that an animated film meant that the film had live animals in it.— reverb