When I would hear cricket scores from an overnight session and they would announce 'Australia lost two wickets overnight'....I thought the actual wickets (stumps) were getting stolen and always wondered how they played the game when they only had three wickets left.
A childhood belief about sport

others believed things like this
- that a piece of liver in your fridge if left overnight would wrap itself around a bottle of milkAnon
- That if you wet a sweet wrap and put it in the freezer overnight, you'd get chewing gum.— Roxie van Renbsurg
- I used to believe that Jiminy Cricket was a grasshopper because I had never seen a green cricket.Anon
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- When I was five or six, I was worried that I'd lost my heart because I didn't hear it beating.Anon