When I was about 4 and 5, I believed that the voices heard on the telephone handset travelled in the space made by the coils in the cord, and that I could interrupt the conversation by putting a finger into that space.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- I believed they put heated coils in lakes for the ducks to swim in the wintertime.Anon
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon
- Me and my friend used to believe that space was in God's belly— Lia
- When I was really little I used to belief that fireworks dropped out of the sky from outer space.— davesgrl2001