places

While playing Trivial Pursuit, I discovered that my seven-year-old sister thought the Statue of Liberty carries a "stick with spikes on."

Rachel

When I was 5 years old I was out digging in our yard and I hit a roof shingle! Well now hasn't everyone always talked about digging to China? I thought that I had hit someones roof, (why there rooves would be in the dirt I do not know.) I ran into the house so excited to only get told that I had hit a shingle that was thrown there years and years ago when the previous owners had shingled their roof. I now, obviously know the difference but I gave my parents a good laugh! :)

Stephanie Wall

i used to believe that all the countries in the world were in my city and i was like dad can we got to china thinking to myself that it was across the street

kc

When I was younger I thought the farthest place in the world was Sacramento California. I have no clue why, I was from Arizona and Sacramento isn't THAT far from me.

Allie

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

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

I used to think that France was in England and i wondered why we had to go by boat!

Miss Rainbow

I used to believe that the Netherlands was Hell.

Marshmello Da Strawberry Cow

'Names Chosen at Random'
I thought Random was 'a place' an actual location where all the games and lottery and etc were sent to be chosen!

Lind@

i used to believe that the ozone layer is made up of plastic and that USA is another planet.

Elle

I used to believe that Miami Beach was up on a mountaintop. When we were kids, taking our annual summer vacation in Florida, we'd fly. It made sense that going through the clouds meant it was way up there, indeed.

Maria

I used to believe "King of Prussia" was read "King of Prices" due to the fact that I could not read very well.

Anon

Not my wrong belief, but at least two Exchange Students we had were shocked seeing Australians had world maps without the Americas at the centre, which was the way they had always seen maps in the US, and obviously thought that was the proper way. One at least got the joke when I gave him one with Australia at the top of the world and Greenland at the bottom. Why not? - there is no real "up" or "down" in space.

Swanny

when i was 5 i listened to the news on the radio and was tranfixed by the war with turkeys and greese. Boat loads of turkeys were arriving in greese intent on war.i was worried about the messs the turkeys would get into with all that oil on their wings.
when I was much older, I went on a Greek holiday and realised i had got it all wrong,

susan

Growing up in the southern US, we would sometimes pass tobacco fields which had rows of leaf drying houses in them. There were no windows in those houses and my dad told us kids that blind people lived in those houses.

Every time we would pass them I would look to see if I could spot a blind person outside, and I thought that when I got older I would go and get them and tell them they were living in houses that had no windows and that wasn't fair.

Annie

When I was little and someone would talk about Greenland, they would always say things like "up to Greenland" (because it's up North, naturally), but I always understood it as if it was in the sky. So I was always looking for a gigantic, floating country in the sky...

Anon

I used to believe walt disney was buried in disneyland because of that statue were he is next to mickey mouse. so i thought it was his tombstone.
yeah i thought that 4 a long time.

haha

After I saw it being played at the Sony Style store in New York, I became convinced that Grand Theft Auto III took place in Portland, Oregon. This no doubt stemmed from the fact that there is a section of Liberty City called Portland View. I was then somewhat scared of Portland.

Anon

I used to have no idea where we went when we flew to california. Since we flew upwards, I thought it was reasonable that california and other places were on other levels of the earth. Whenever i looked up I would wave because I thought that maybe if my cousins or grandparents were looking down then myabe they could see us. I also wondered how you could get to places that were on levels below you. I was therefore very surprised to find out that you could actually go in a car to california.

laura

I live in Puerto Rico a small island in the Caribbean. My house had a fence dividing the backyard from the forest. My sister and I, since we were told that China was far away from us, thought that if we crossed the fence in our backyard we would arrive at China. And every day my sister would look out to the backyard and would cross the fence and come back and then start saying to my mom that she had gone to China.

Las Hermanas Boricuas