When I was little I used to believe that stop lights were operated by tiny little men. These tiny little people each had a flashlight that they would shine against the colored glass in order to change the signals.
A childhood belief about traffic lights

others believed things like this
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- I used to think tiny little people were inside my mothers radio singing to me.Anon
- I used to belive that there were tiny people in vending machines that gave you your food.— Meah
- "Traffic lights are operated by monkies inside of them" or so a very reliable source informed me.— guuy
- i used to think that little tiny spiders would grow big while my mom wasn'r looking and eat me.— rodog