I could never understand how Unsolved Mysteries would be able to film things as they happened, but that the police could never get there quick enough to find out what happened. It was years before I learned that they were recreations!
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- i used to believe that everyone had different colored pee. mine just happened to be yellow.— rick
- I used to think that blow-jobs happened when you got fired from a job— MeGaN
- I used to believe that earthquakes happened because the earth was farting. — Amanda
- I used to believe that tornados only happened in North America.Anon
- when i was little i thought it rained because something bad happened and god or jesus was crying. — derek