my gran used to have a rail line at the bottom of her garden and i used to beleive that trains were wolves, my sister would tell me this then run and lock herself in the shed and leave me outside until the last moment, this added to the fear as i never saw that they weren't wolves.
A childhood belief about trains

others believed things like this
- Wolves lived under my bed when I was a kid.— ricolarno
- I used to believe that elfs lived in the hedge at the bottom of my garden!!
— The milky bargirl - When trains (subways) go underground, my little sister thought that the lights were shooting stars.— Katie
- my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.— Victoria
- My older sister used to beleive that when it rained, the angels in heaven were having a spitting contest— Doblica W.
- i used to beleive that if you chewed gum it woul give you warts in your mouth my sister told me this— sunney jim of the pearl