My mother told me that when you turned the TV off the people inside it could then have a turn at watching you. When I was alone I would cover up the TV with a blanket so they couldn't see me. I think my mother might really have believed this.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- When I was a year old, I believed if I hid my face, my mother couldn't see me because I couldn't see her.— kimberly dianne(:
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex
- My mother told me that if I picked my nose it would turn into a pigs trotter!— Lynne S :o)
- i told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- Atomatic toilets had people inside of them watching to see when you are done.Anon