Some people got an idea of something when they were very young and never revised that idea because they didn’t get in touch with it again.

I believed until I was like 8 or 9 or even older that the noise coming from a bottle with hot liquid in it was caused by a worm inside the bottle.

An adult told me this as a joke, which I took for a fact and never came in contact with the subject again, consciously.

Exhaust fumes accelerating a car feels very much similar. Kids logic