landscape

I used to belief that the Equator was a large indentation in the world, similar to a canal, that people had to leap through to get to the other hemispheres of the world. If you stayed in the ditch for too long, then you'd be fried!!! The water would also dip along the Equator. It dipped so perfectly, the walls and the floor were exactly perpendicular!

Heather :)

i used to believe the earth was a giants head, and all the trees and grass was his hair. i felt really sorry for the giant, cuz people keep builing houses, and digging holes in his head. eventually, i realized that just couldn't be possible.

kaci

My roommate told me that when she was young, she would see the large round bales of hay laying in fields and further down the road she would see cows in the fields, so she assumed that the hay bales were cow eggs.

Trish

At about the age of seven, I first saw in a Time-Life Science Book of the Earth Geology a picture of what the Earth looked like tens of millions of years ago. It was one large supercontinent called Pangaea. Looking at the picture, I could see that the eastern part of the United States was right next to Africa. I thought that this must have been great, because not long ago, humans could conveniently walk over to Africa from North America anytime they wanted to. The only thing wrong with this childhood belief was that humans did not yet exist at the time that Pangaea supercontinent did.

Anon

When I was about 5 or so, I thought that someone had the special job of walking around the world and meticulously planting each seed of grass.

anonymous

A few miles from my home there is a wind farm on the coast. When I asked what the large twirling things were, my Dad (who loved to kid us) said that they had been left there by a race of extinct giants, and that they were the giant equivalent of those plastic twirly things on sticks you get in seaside shops and put in the sand on the beach.

Samantha Westerby

When I was small my Dad used to tell me that electricity pylons were in reality large animals that were resting in daylight but at night started to walk around. I was never quite sure whether to disbelieve him or not.

Jonathan Westerby

I though that behind mountains in my town there was a kind of heavenly place with water falls, riots of flowers, fruits -the most delicious in the world-and lovely animals from little birds to enormous elephants. I always kept my secret until now when I posted it.

Jose Felix Chacon

I used to believe that when winter came and it snowed the grass just died or went away for the winter.

Chris

that if i swang high enough on the swing set at my grandmothers house...i could catch a cloud for her.

nicole

When as a child I first saw a giant's grave and was told what it was I got utterly confused. I am German and the German word for "giant's grave" contains a rather rarely used synonym for giant ("Huene") which I didn't know then. As I couldn't make anything of it I thought I must have misheard and that surely it meant chickens as the plural of the German word for chicken ("Huehner") kinda sounds like "Huene" (giant). So in order to make sense of it all I imagined some ancient tribe so worshipping chicken that they burried them in huge fancy rock graves. Some grave for a chicken!

Piglet

when i was a child i used to believe i can touch the sky by going at the top of the maunting

abubakar

I remember thinking, for some strange reason, that a "sun set" was a day glo set of folding chairs and a card table. Unfortunately my internal monologue is no less confusing at 29...

Peg

my church told me that if you believe in God, you may move mountains. i used to sit in the backseat of my car andfocus really hard on the hills trying to make them move.

Brittany Quinn

When I was about 5 my older sister told me that the earth moved and when people were walking they were really standing in the same spot and the earth was moving around them.

I could never understand how people could be walking in different directions at the same time, and what happened if you doubled back really quickly.

She denies all this of course.

Boo

for the longest time I thought that people lived on the inside of the planet earth! I just couldn't figure out where the wheather came from ...

violet

when i was younger, i used to think that the big companys with the smokestacks were cloud factories.

Bunny

i could never get my mind around the world being round and used to believe that the clouds in the sky were the whales in the see of the country opposite us on teh globe.

ursula

i used to live in southern california. whe my family would go out to drive around, i noticed that the hills and foothills looked like big mammoths' heads. i supposed that the mammoths were sleeping and that one day they would wake up.

JLB