I used to hear my parents talk about the Highway Patrol and I misunderstood them. I thought they said "troll" as in troll under the bridge in the billy goats gruff story. Every time I would hear a siren, I would run away in a panic thinking the troll was going to eat me.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- Olivia Newton John did sing let me hear your budgie talk! didn't she— J Scull
- At night I would hear the chirping crickets and thinking it was comeing from the stars in the sky!— delana
- The first time I hear about a serial killer, I laughed. You can't kill cereal. It's not alive.Anon
- When i was about 5 years old, i used to believe that everything i thought people could hear!Anon
- I thought that days had 100 hours in them. Very surprised to hear there were only 24.— Cassiopeia
- I used to believe that no one could hear me when I hummed — Grace