When I was about 5 or 6, I used to believe that there were actually tiny musicians inside radios playing the songs. Since our radio in the old days only had one or two stations, I thought they switched the people paying when you changed the station.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I was convinced that musicians lived inside the radio...little versions of them, that is!— pcmkrfn
- I used to think tiny little people were inside my mothers radio singing to me.Anon
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy