As ludicrous as this may sound this is, I swear, the truth! My gran used to put a cover over the TV at night, when I asked her why she replied “because I don't want them (the people in the TV) watching in at night”! I nearly believed it as well, old people aren't they great she’s as mad as a fish and as thick as a bat.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was actually coming from the twinkle of the stars.— Lily Fagioli
- I used to believe that it was warmer during the day than at night because more people were about.Anon
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was the noise the stars made when they sparkled. — Jane
- When I was a kid, I thought the stars in the sky at night, were the balloons people let go.— Lisa
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho