My younger brother and his friends used to believe that the yellow boxes with flashing amber lights on top of them used in construction sites were tv cameras. They spent hours dancing and singing in front of them.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- Once, at night time, I saw the flashing lights from an aeroplane and I thought it was a UFO.Anon
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- i used to believe that red yellow and green meant "ready, set, Go!" on traffic lights..— cabagona
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- when I was younger I used to believe a serial killer lived in cereal boxes.— laura
- for my first Internet year, i believe all the ".ca" sites stands for Calif State websites.— ray cheng