I used to believe the static noise you hear when you play around with the radio dial was actually messages from space. I would listen to it for hours on end trying to decipher the alien language.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- I thought that days had 100 hours in them. Very surprised to hear there were only 24.— Cassiopeia
- I used to believe that if you spoke into the speakers that they would hear it at the radio station. — natalie
- I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria
- I thought the ball-headed person in the Bic logo was an alien and communicated using alien-like noises.Anon
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- I used to believe that when there was static on the tv, it would be showing the inside of your body.— Dr.Starr2.0