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When I was 5 or 6 years old, I had heard a tale of a swedish kid (called Emil, for those who know about him)that had put a sausage on top of a long stick, to trap some animal. On a high hill near the place I lived, there was an old, almost dead tree standing all alone, with just a few branches in the top. It was quite far away, and so it looked like a stick with something in the top. I, of course, thought it was the stick from the tale, with the sausage on top...

Tina

Once, when I was five, I saw a news broadcast that ended with a shot of a car driving away from the camera and the reporter signing off with, "This John Doe reporting from Chicago". Except I didn't hear "Chicago" but instead, "WatchYerCarGo". I thought that was the name of the biggest city in the Midwest for years afterwards. Even when I knew better I couldn't think of Chicago without visualizing that old gas guzzler pulling away from the curb.

Dave

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

When I was maybe 4 or 5 the family would be watching the Jackie Gleason show on tv. I remember him saying during the intro "Here we are in Beauuutiful Miami" I kept thinking, well where is his beautiful MAMMY he keeps talking about??

judd

when my dad used to play this online game i watched him play and when you got to a certain point of the eath there was just black and you fell off i was scared to go outside cause i thought if i walked to far i might fall off the eath

Emily

i used to believe that every street address of every single house represented a different and distinct country

matt

I thought the Ukraine = the U.K.

and nowhere but the U.S. had t.v.

gina

i used to believe that ''Melbourne'' in Australia, was in the state of ''New South Wales'', instead of ''Victoria'', MELBOURNE IS IN THE STATE VITCORIA!. I believed this until I was 16!! haha

brie

My husband told me that when he was 2-3, and he was living with his grandmother in this small town in Arkansas, he used to read the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and he really believed that all white people lived in New York, because he never saw any white people where he lived.

S.D.

I used to believe that each US state was a different country, and each of those countries spoke different languages. I was confused for a while about why my grandparents spoke English if they were from a different state.

Anon

I used to believe that by digging in the sandbox, at my daycare, I would eventually make it to China. My friends and I would dig every day and when we hit the bottom or the sides we thought it was just earth's core.

Chelsey Eichler

I used to think that there was a main, or central, place in the world. Kind of like a capital city, but of the world. I thought where I lived was that place.

Natasha

I could not understand, after listening to theevening news during the turbulent period in the late 60's, why everyone Haighted this guy named Ashbury in San Francisco.

jimt

I used to think that Toronto was in Pennsylvania. I was 13 and about to go into 8th grade when I found out it was in Canada.

Meg

a friend of mine during geography class asked if the earth was round then why did it take so much time for travelling frm us to australia when they could go the other way round it would be faster.
answer her!

someone wise

Once I came home from school and my mom told me we had bombed Iraq. I wondered what she was talking about. After a few moments of thinking I asked her, "Were there people on the rock?".
I actually thought she had said "we bombed a rock". :P

Dyth

When I was a child, i used to believe that i could see to the Magician Kings, on a terrace behind my house

Maria Nieves

That if you dug a hole deep enough you would make it to the other side of the wourld.

Jeff

My older brother and I played a trick on our little brother when he was about 8. We told him that America had adopted Puero Rico as the 51st state. We didn't think he'd fall for it so completely. He believed that for like a month.

Anon

that there were 52 states- alaska and hawaii right?

brittney