When I was a child, in the 80's, I asked my father why radio stations sometimes came in clearer when I stood near or touched the antenna. He explained that we all had a metal plate in our heads and that the closer we stood to the radio, the stronger the signal would get. I believed this up until I was 13, when I was finally set straight after I told my teacher about it one day in science class.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- I use to believe all the people singing on the radio were IN the radio.— Yvonne
- When I was a child I used to believe that I was the singer who played on the radio— Gabriela Ortega
- i used to believe A.D. stood for "after dinosaurs".— Jennifer
- i used to think that shtml stood for
"sh*tmail".— anonymous