In my area, passenger trains run in the day time, and freight trains run at night, so I thought there were only passenger trains, never seeing the freight trains and all. I have always heard the horns on the freight trains and night, and I thought they were just the passenger trains for many years, until I eventually discovered that they sound completely different than the horns on the passenger trains during the day. I started going crazy wondering what those horns really were, and I thought that maybe they weren't even trains. Luckily, I am now a teen, and I stay up later than I used to. I sometimes go outside at night and see the freight trains go by, realizing that they were the sources all along.
A childhood belief about trains
others believed things like this
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- When trains (subways) go underground, my little sister thought that the lights were shooting stars.— Katie
- I used to think underground trains actually descended into the tunnel, like a rollercoaster.— Natasha
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie - Once, at night time, I saw the flashing lights from an aeroplane and I thought it was a UFO.Anon
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was actually coming from the twinkle of the stars.— Lily Fagioli