There was a burn outside of the house I used to live at as a child. Me, and a friend of mine at the time believed that if we dug at the side of the burn, we would find gold, and we spent all of our time digging for gold.
Yes, I had a strange childhood :)
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- i believe that using gold give electric shock at the time of lightning.so i didnot wear gold when rain starts.— asi18
- I used to belive that there was gold in my nose because pepole would always say that i was "diggin' for gold"!— addicted nose picker
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die— Bill
- when I was a kid I used to believe that the end of the rainbow would be a pot of gold— jonas bryan proença de souza
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain