When my mom was a kid, all she had was a radio to listen to and she used to believe that there were little people living inside of it talking and playing music... She never told me this until I was much older - coincidentally, I thought the exact same thing when I was about the same age as she was.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that stand up pianos actually told jokes as well as playing music.— L MAN
- My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.Anon
- I used to think tiny little people were inside my mothers radio singing to me.Anon
- I used to believe that if you had an animal listen to classical music, it'd eventually learn how to talk.Anon
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark
- When the police are talking about "rap sheets," I thought that the criminals were making rap music.Anon