E: Who was Hitler?
me: (to V) Do you know?
V nods.
me: Why don't you tell her?
V: [explanation in Spanish-- all correct-- about how Hitler wanted to rule the world and how he didn't like the Jews]
E: I heard Hitler turned people into zombies.
me: What?
E: Yeah, something fell from the sky and it divided up and he used it to turn people into zombies.
me: I think you're thinking of World War II and Zombies*
E: No, seriously, I really heard it!
me: There are no real zombies in history... you know that, right?
E: I think there are.
I love my students.
* the book I just decided to write in the tradition of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead