I used to believe that if you played with the phone without permission, the operator would come through the phone holes and stab you in the ear. After learning this, I never played with the phone again.
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
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- I used to believe that invisible giants played with us like I played with my dolls. — Alexandria
- When I was little I used to believe that if I played with fire, then I would wet the bed. — Danielle
- I used to believe that my toys played without me while I was gone and that was way before Toy Story!— K.ladybug