places

i used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our books

Anon

I was a small child during the twilight of the Soviet Union, and once the country Georgia (then a part of it) was mentioned on the nightly news. I started freaking out, thinking the Communists had invaded Atlanta. I was really worried that the Soviet Union would expand to Florida and the Carolinas and eventually to my house. My mother had to explain the difference between Georgia the country in Europe and Georgia the state by Florida.

Mg

When I was very young, I watched an after school show about polar bears, and the narrator referred to their habitat as "the top of the world: the Arctic." I saw all the ice and thought it was clouds, and since clouds were on top of the world, that must be where they'd gone to film the polar bears. It took my mother a while to explain that we couldn't go up to the clouds to meet the Eskimos and watch the polar bears.

Anon

My dad used to always tell me that all roads lead to Vernon. So in 12th when my I had a test in my italian class I the question "it is typically said in italy that all roads lead to what?" i answered vernon. I obviously go the answer wrong.

headed towards Vernon PA

When I was a kid, we would sometimes drive through a tunnel in town. Near the access lane was a big street light, consisting of many lights on a kind of upside down flying saucer. I had no real idea how far or how big this object was, but I thought it was actually a small town in the clouds. Obviously, there had to be a way to get there. So everytime we'd drive past this street light, I saw a small road nearby which I thought was the way to this mysterious city. So I'd always ask my dad if we could drive this road, and he'd tell me 'maybe one day'. I was puzzled by the fact I could not see the other end of the road entering into the city up in the air. But I accepted that fact: after all, I knew I was only a kid, and thus there had to be a few things I could not understand nor explain!

Denis (France)

When I was little I used to think that Hollywood was in Ohio. Growing up in Michigan, I always used to bug my mom to take me to Hollywood and I couldn't understand why she kept saying no.

jeska

The one day my sister said she was going to Washington DC for a field trip at school, and I wondered how she was there for a day, because I used to think Washington DC was the state of Washington (I live in Pennsylvania). I was so confused by it, and I believed that from the time I was 8.

Lauren

i can remember my parents saying they were thinking of moving house and asking me where i wanted to live. i said i didnt mind as long as it wasn't earnest. baffled by this answer they asked me why. so i told them that lots of people get murdered there and i would be too scared to sleep. they still didn't understand so i explained how on the news murder enquiries always begin in earnest!

PaganJay

I used to believe that the forth bridge , which runs across the river forth in Scotland, was named because the other three had fallen down !

ross

i remember standing in the playground when i was about 6 and i could smell daffodil and for about 2 years i thought the world was a giant daffodil.bit random but i was only 6 lol!

becki

I went to Italy with my parents for the first time when I was three years old. It took so long to fly there - nine hours - that I was convinced it was on another planet.

lil_amsterdam

There is a town in British Columbia called 100 Mile House. When I was a kid my father told me that it wasn't a town, it was actually a house that was one hundred miles long. I envisioned this gigantic log house building until I was about eleven years old.

lil_amsterdam

I used to think Hungary and Turkey were the same country... I have no idea where that came from...

Skylla

OK, it needs some explain for the beginning. In polish, telephone exchange is called "centrala". I'm from Poland and in my early childhood several times I watched cartoons with polish dubbing, where the character called phone and asked "centrala?" Each time I thought that was asking for the name of the town the receiver was in, because "centrala" sounded for me just as the name of the town, like i.e "Warszawa" (Warsaw). Few years later I've learnt what does "centrala" really means, but before that, I seriously believed there's somewhere town called Centrala and I had several funny situations with this, i.e. I was sitting on the toy motorcycle, playing that I'm riding it, and when some aunt asked me jokely where I'm going, i replied "to the Centrala". Boy, you should to see their looks when they heard that =)

Drunked dolphin

When I was little, I used to believe that the Leaning Tower of Piza was actually the Leaning Tower of Pizzas. I would always ask my mom how it stayed there and why nobody just ate it!

Chad

i play blueberry hill with my friends and when i was about 4 i went looking for blueberry hill.unfortunatly i aws looking in my back yard.=)

weird kid

When I was very little I lived in a Place Called Mill Woods but we moved to where I live now And I used to think (when I was about 4-8 that Mill Woods was an actual wood and I used to live in a tree!

Kayl

Until today I believe that the white house was the U.S. capitol. last summer i was in D.C. and got to go into the Capital Building....i remeber telling my friends i visited the white house. i'm a loser

Anon

My grandmother used to live in a small town in northern California named McCloud. Because of my Dad's work schedule, the only time we could make the trip to visit her was in the wintertime. The town is up in the mountains, and we'd drive past lots of snow and fog to get there. I was sure we were actually driving up into the clouds to visit her. There was always about 8 feet of snow on the ground, which fit with my notion that clouds were really cold. And after all, the town was even named McCloud!

ZCam