When I was at my grandma's house as a little kid, I was standing outside near a power pole one afternoon when I heard a cicada start to sing. I'd never heard one before, and since I couldn't see the bug, I thought it was the power pole making that strange buzzing noise!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...— Logica
- I have always lived very near to a power station, and I used to believe it was a cloud making machine.— Kirsty Martindale
- I believe there are horses making the car go fast when people told me the horse power of a car.— Jake
- I thought Santa was the President of the North Pole. It was stupid I know
lol— Lynn Wright - I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu
- When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole. — Sara