When I was little, I was terrified of the Phantom of the Opera, because I'd hear advertisements for it on the radio, and the music scared me, and I knew a phantom was a ghost. I always thought that when I was in my room alone the Phantom would come and get me.
Now... I'm a HUGE phan.
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- Soap Opera's are Soaps that sing Opera to you while you take a bath. Right???— Kid 1990
- I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.— Joe
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- I I thought that Ibiza was the name of a band since you hear about music described as "Ibiza"— Fargot
- I used to believe that if you spoke into the speakers that they would hear it at the radio station. — natalie
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie