When I was a kid I believed that each house with a streetlight outside of it had a switch in the house for the owner to turn on the light. If the light wasn't on that night, they must have forgotten to turn on their streetlight.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world. Anon
- We used to turn our walkie talkies on high at night and believed were communicating with aliens!— Dreamy
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - i thought the for sale sign buy owner things meant that u could also buy the owner — brandi
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon