nature

When I was little when there was lightning I thought that God was taking a picture of us.

When I first saw film footage of an earthquake, I believed that the earth split apart right around the world and people and cars fell in to the centre of the earth before it closed again.
I used to imagine falling into the crack and not being able to climb back out before it closed on me.

when i was little my mum was always saying every time there was a black sky "Ooh, look, it's black over Bill's mothers". The trouble was that my Grandad's name was Bill and I can remember once coming back from holiday on the motorway and my Mum said it again as there was a massive grey thunder-cloud in the sky. I remember thinking "God, where ever we are, she always seems to know what direction Grandad's mum's house is in!" Then one day me and my Mum and Dad were driving along in the car again and the radio presenter said "and here is todays weather, ooh, it looks a bit black over bill's mothers" i was well shocked and i thought "how does he know grandad?!"

I used to belive that in the fall when the leafs fell from the trees, it was the long neck dinosaur ghosts eating them. You would see them on the ground becaus ethe ghosts arent solid.

i used to believe that powers station cooling towers were where the clouds came from

When I was small my Dad told me that Power Stations were cloud making factories. I really believed him and got into a big argument with my teacher over it, ending up with 100 lines stating " I must not call my teacher stupid!"

As a very small child I believed that in order for the trees to grow they needed to be fed. When my father realised his chicken feed was diappearing he watched me closely. He found me taking the food in a bucket and spreading it around the trees in the bush.

Thunder was the angels shaking their blankets out. Rain was the fairies crying.

When I was a little girl, I really disliked being out in the wind - I thought I would get blown away. And I especially hated being near trees, as I was convinced it was their waving about which was causing the wind in the first place. To this day, I'm still a bit nervous about going near trees when it's stormy!

i used to believe if everybody kept digging out stuff coal, tunnells, etc'from underground that the earth would collapse.

Lily

I thought that the Great Bear constellation was only visible from our town, and that was the reason why the symbol of our town was a saucepan. Actually, it was to do with the local tin plate industry, ... not quite as romantic !

Although I'd read lots of books and knew more than other kids my age, I still believed the silliest things... For example, someone told me that a nettle didn't sting you if it was plucked (i.e. it only "worked" if it was still on the ground). And so, once I got mad at my sister, picked up a nettle and hit her in the face with it! I was sure it wouldn't hurt much – but she screamed blue murder.

When I was in jr. kindergarten a little boy threw a worm in my hair and for years after I believed that people carried umbrellas because worms fell from the sky.

I was brought up in England near a golf course which had a stream running through it, into which I fell one day, and it was very cold. When I was about 4 my mother told me that the "golf" stream kept England warm which I could not credit as it was so small and so cold. Not for years did i realise that she had said the "gulf" stream.

I used to believe that, and this is true, that God and the Devil would have a card game to decide the weather...SO if it was raining the Devil had won and if it was sunny God had come up trumps! We were a big card playing family thats my only excuse!!

also me and my friend once were at school aged about 5 and it was thunder andd lightning. and i remember us asking the teacher if the thunder was god using his hoover and microwave or if he was angry