I thought, somehow, as a child that if you played chess and made a wrong move, you might blow up. I saw some show, I believe perhaps on Playhouse 90, that showed two men playing chess and there was an explosion so I believed that would have to me also.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon
- When I was a kid I was convinced that the world would end by a nucleur explosion. — Marshall M
- The trees moving made the wind blow.— little jimmy
- When I was a child I used to believe that I was the singer who played on the radio— Gabriela Ortega
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon