My parents told me that when you got a ringing in your ears, it meant a satellite was overhead.
Into my early teens, I would look up into the sky whenever my ears rang to look for the satellite!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that satellites were launched from satellite dishes.— Mike
- When I was a kid I thought that the newsreaders on satellite TV lived in the satellites.— Mat
- I used to believe that cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.— ella
- My dad told me "Hush Puppie" shoes were made from Basset Hound ears.— William
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- i used to believe that bunny's could fly with their ears.Anon