I believed that when the phone was ringing, the person on the other end could hear everything going on at the other end.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- When I was little i believed that Madison Avenue was a person.Anon
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- As a child I believed that when a person was fired from their job, they were executed on a firing range. — damien
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli
- I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J