The truck we had when I was little had an old radio with knobs for the volume and tuning. I thought the volume knob was remotely connected to the people's noses and turning the knob twisted their noses, therefor making them yell louder.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you turned up the volume on the T.V the people had to shout louder.— Tanana
- when i was little i thought people with big heads or big noses had cancer...Anon
- I used to believe that, in a deep and profound kind of way, the words "door knob" rhymed with "said so". — Katie
- i used to think that it you kept the volume off on the teleivision set. it would explode.— kath
- Split walnuts... i used to think they were dried pig noses!!— SaMmI LaMy
- I used to think that when Dad turned the radio up in the car the artist was made to sing louder!!— Sparks