When I was a kid, the logo for channel 12 was an oval with the letters "WHYY" in it, and occasionally the station would show the logo and play music. I used to believe that the logo was actually a small dark-colored man with the logo as his head, and I was in mortal danger whenever the music would start to play. I was so afraid that he would come out and drag me into the TV! Needless to say, I never watched channel 12.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to believe the D in the Disney logo was a backwards G. I never understood why.— Nancy
- I used to think Mr. Rogers lived at Target because I always saw the Target logo before/after his show.— stephanie
- I used to think the old BBC logo that was on one of my videos as a child was evil and wanted me to be dead.— tanukibear
- I thought the ball-headed person in the Bic logo was an alien and communicated using alien-like noises.Anon
- I used to think that a conductor while conducting told the players what to play as opposed to their music.— Daryl
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon