My sister told me that when riding a train if I heard a noise that sounded like a the train's horn it was in fact a creature called a 'Beebarp' getting run over. 'Beebarps' apparently ate children and kept their left over toe nails on necklaces.
A childhood belief about trains
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - Our mum told us that the ice-cream van noise was a children's ambulance— moonpants & sausage
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- I believed alligators lived in toilets, and one apparently got hold of my sister.Anon
- my sister told me that bunkers on golf courses were for children to play in while their dads played golf.— Julie