I thought that if a train derailed that it would keep going no matter what direction. So at night everytime I heard a train, I would pray it wouldn't derail and come through my bedrooom. We didn't even live very close to ant tracks.
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 - I used to believe that the priest was God because everytime a child cried, he wouldn't be talking.Anon
- i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- I used to believe that if you didn't close the toilet lid after flushing, you would get sucked down into it.— Maya