places

when i was a kid i loved the cartoon "beetlejuice" (a spin off from the movie) and i heard about a country called the Netherlands and i was incredulous.

i was like "wait, the netherworld (the world beetlejuice and all dead people lived in) is a REAL PLACE?!?!?!?"

from then on, i believed that the netherworld was a actual place you could visit in the real world

dib

that there were 52 states- alaska and hawaii right?

brittney

When my brother was very small he somehow got the idea that all people of color were from New York. I don't know how he came up with that.

Big Sis

When my dad would drive us around in the car, we would continuously yell out from the back seat "Where are we going? Where are we going?" My dad would say "Berserk". I was a teenager before I realized that "berserk" was a state of mind and not a destination.

Still Waiting to Get There....

i used to think, when i was about 4 that i lived inside a whale because i live ion the country Wales

mike

I moved to Texas when I was 10, and I had just seen "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" where he has to go to the basement of the Alamo to find his bike. I was super bummed when I went to the Alamo, and it looked nothing like the movie.

Meghan

When I was 4 or 5, I was told that the man who had built our house had moved to Florida when he was finished. I imagined a state covered in tile as far as the eye could see, with lots of houses sitting there on that giant FLOOR, built by the guy who built our house and was maybe just tired of hills and grass and stuff.

Randy W.

When I was around 6 or 7 years old, I used to believe that if I dug straight down through the earth in my sandbox that I would reach China. Well I eventually learned that, that is not true :)

Michele

I live in oregon and just to the north is a city called camas, which has a paper factory that is very stinky. when visiting my grandma we would have to pass it, and my parents would say "smells like the camas plant"....so i was under the impression that camas was an actual stinky plant that the city was named after. It wasn't till i was an adult that i found out - there is no stinky camas plant other than the factory

A

For some reason I used to think the Christmas of 1977 was going to be the last Christmas ever, for the whole world. There would be no more Christmases forever. WTF, I was 6 then! :-D

Anon

We used to go to my grandma's, on the interstate. We never went further and I believed that all the cars were falling off the side of the world.

blake

This is quite sad. A friend of mine, in high school, thought that Alaska was an island surrounded by a box in the Pacific Ocean.

Anon

For whatever reason I thought that if you stepped right on the equater you would get sucked to the center of the earth.

Anon

(I live in the united States)

I used to believe that China was over the mountains. So When I was in Kindergarden our bus driver got mad at us for being loud on the bus and said, "you better be quiet, or I will turn this bus around and take you all over the moutain and make you go back to school!" I was scared because I didn't to go to school in China. I wanted to go to school in the united states. I was also scared of chiniese people at the time.

Jeremy

I used to think that the black market was a real place.

Patrick

I used to belief that the countries in the world were actually small planets. All together they would make up the Earth. So, if I would visiting another country, I would have to fly through a tube to get into the other country.

You can imagine the surprise when we visited Germany (I'm Dutch) and it was just at the other end of the street.

What a ripoff!

Marco

For a while, I thought Vegas and Las Vegas were two different cities.

Jen