When I was about 7 or 8 years old, my dad once told me that the 'Emergency Test' on the TV meant that the TV was going to blow up. A week after he told me that I was at my grandmothers and the "test Beep" came on tv and i ran around my grandmothers house screaming "The TV is going to blow up!"
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- that if i swang high enough on the swing set at my grandmothers house...i could catch a cloud for her.— nicole
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon
- I thought if something was radioactive it meant if you turn on a radio near it it would blow up— Nate
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I was told in first grade that if you fart burp and sneeze at the same time you would blow up— bob doodle
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey