I used to believe that cats eyes in the road were real cats eyes that had been collected by some mad street cat catcher (think child catcher Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- That the "Childcatcher" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang would come up the toilet + catch me while I was on it.— Kat
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- I thought when the Big Bang happened it made an actual bang noise— Catte
- I used to believe that a dream catcher really made nightmares go away.
— WOLVERINEfLASH14 - I alwaysused to think white cats were girls, and black cats were male ...— Smiley Face