I used to believe that if you stood under a satellite TV dish while someone changed the channel, you would die.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to think that satellites were launched from satellite dishes.— Mike
- When I was a kid I thought that the newsreaders on satellite TV lived in the satellites.— Mat
- I used to believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.— Kent
- that the chinese dish Hunan beef was really made from humans. To this day, I have never ordered it. — kristen
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab