When i was little(in the 70s/80s) the rag & bone man used to come around the streets on his cart shouting 'RAGS, BONES' I believed he was collecting corpses. Everytime i heard him outside i'd lock myself in the bathroom.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a sign in a cafe bone-fide meal meant meat with a bone in it— roy
- My girlfriend believed someone who told her that chewing gum was made from dogs bones!— tony
- I used to believe that the tooth fairy was some weird old guy with a hot dog cart.— Matt
- That the tooth fairy drove around in her green Volks Wagon Collecting teeth from all the children.— Wanda Trytten
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio
- When I heard "Don't Come Out Tonight(Bad Moon on the Rise), I thought they were saying Bathroom on the Right.— helen.sellers