When stores have a grand opening and put those huge spotlights out front and light up the sky with them - I used to think that this was how the police would look for & catch criminals that had gotten away by plane or helicopter. Somehow I did not find out that this was a promotional thing until.....adulthood. (Maybe there was something like this on Batman?)
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- When the police are talking about "rap sheets," I thought that the criminals were making rap music.Anon
- I use to believe the fireflies were birds with spotlightsAnon
- When I was little my dad told me that monsters jump out from spotlights and I belived it...— Cassie
- I used to believe that my dad use to find magic balls behind my ears and catch them in a paper bag.— Netty
- I used to believe that you could catch AIDS from just looking at a nud girl. Good thing I was WRONG— Mbm4615
- when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish