Ok I moved from my home town to a new town when I was 9 years old and into a trailer park and my bedroom was at the back of the house. My window faced this railroad track that was RIGHT outside our home. All day I thought it was kind of cool that I lived right by a train track, but that night I'm watching the news on my tv cause I couldn't find anything else to watch and I saw this news report about a "train man". Who they said jumped off trains and killed someone and jumped back on the train to the next town. I started crying!!! I bawled all night and couldn't sleep cause I was so sure that the train man would come to our house and kill me since I was right by the tracks. Even after they caught him I thought that there were a whole bunch of "train men" and still had a hard time getting to sleep in that trailer till I was atleast 13 years old!!
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - I used to think all television shows were made at the tv station on the hill of my home town. — Monique
- I used to believe that clouds were made from a factory chimney that was south of my home town. — bynbyn
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- I used to think that my home town of Eureka was MY Rika since I thought everyone said YOUR Rika.— I still wonder who Rika is