I was 5 years old when my 96 year old great grandmother died. As my mom was trying to explain this to me, I remember asking her "If they scooped her bones off the floor." For some reason I thought that when you die, you are always in bed, and you instantly turn into a skeleton, and your bones fall to the floor! My mom had a tough time with that one!

JILL

I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven

lissa

I used to worry about Russia dropping bombs on us. I begged my parents for a canopy bed because I thought that the canopy would catch a bomb (that I thought were like cannonballs) and keep it from falling on me during the night.

Michelle

I thought that whatever your Zodiac sign was that it was the way you were going to die. Being a Scorpio and living in Arizona where there were plenty of scorpions I spent many a sleepless night afraid they were going to get me!

Anon

When i was younger, my mom used to tell me that if i wore my bra to bed I'd get breast cancer. I was very skeptical about this but still felt the need to warn my friends when I learned they slept with theirs on.

Anon

when i was little, i was so scared of death, as most kids are, i was so scared to go to sleep because i was afraid that i would die. I always heard people say, "Ohh... they died in their sleep." To comfort me, my mom, told me that it was impossible to die in your sleep. I guess I wanted to believe it so bad, I did for years. It wasn't until I was an adult with children of my own that my great-aunt passed away and to comfort me my mom hugged me and said, "It's OK honey, she died peacefully in her sleep." I was horrified! I turned and said, "That impossible." Then she explained the truth. Thank you mom for trying to comfort me, I wish I still believed.

Jennifer Holland

Well. when i was 4 or 5, me and my mom were driving down the northway and i saw a cemetary that seemed as though it was in someones backyard. So i was thinking that if you really wanted to, you could bury your family in your backyard if you wanted to. So when i came to this revelation, i told my mom " So wait, if these people can bury their family in their backyard, can i bury you in the backyard?" and she was astonished by this question. So then i just continued what i was saying "Well then, if im gonna bury you in our backyard, i'd better start digging!" and she wont let me live it down to this day.

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My uncle had me convinced that my great grandpa would come back to life if I pulled all the weeds up in his backyard

David

My little gramma (my great gramma)died when I was six. I went to the funeral. At that time I thought that if I got to close to her she would wake up and grab me and strangle me. I sat in the back row of course.

Zoe

when i was about 5 me n my friend were playing with make up when she told me if you lick your lips with lipstick on, you die within five minutes.i started counting the last few minutes till of my life with utter panic (i was worried about getting in trouble with my mom for dying!) until she got a tissue to wipe it off and 'save my life', then i had to do everything for her cause she 'saved my life'

kerry

Not having any idea what cremation was, I couldn't figure out how my grandpa's skeleton could fit in that little 'vase'.

Jess

I used to hold my breath everytime we drove past a cemetary because if you breathed the bodies would be able to absorb your oxygen and then turn into zombies. Needless to say, if we passed a particularly large cemetary I would be quite purple by the time it was 'safe'. I admit, even now, I sometimes still hold my breath when I pass a cemetary!

Wendy

when i was little my grandma died and i asked where she went and my mom said "She had went to a better place" and whenever we went somewhere cool or fancy i would look for grandma XDDD then i would say "did grandma go here" and my mom would be like "...Oo" X)

AJ (short for adrienne)

This wasn't my belief, it was my sister's friend's. When he was a kid he would spend the evenings in the living room with his family. He thought that he had to look at them all in turn in a particular order and if he stopped, then the last person he looked at would die. He was also too scared to tell them why he did this. So every evening he would keep looking at everyone in turn and his siblings got really freaked out!

Anon

I used to believe that my parents and aunts and uncles visted the graves of their parents so frequently because they were old too, and going to join them there soon.

Kresel

When I was about 6 I was very interested in death - my grandfather having died. Now, some people told me he went UP to heaven, and other people told me he went DOWN into the ground. It took me a while to figure it out - but I did. I just knew that he must have been cut in half in the middle, that his top half had Gladwrap around the bottom of it (to stop his insides falling out), then it was sent up to heaven, and the bottom half went into the coffin and then into the ground.

I still reckon it was good thinking.

Kaye

I had no concept of death. I thought that when people died they were taken away in an ambulance, and then brought back from hospital when they'd recovered.

ludwig van dollymixture

I once licked a bleach bottle top, and my mother told me I was going to die in a few minutes....mean, I know, but I never licked bleach again!

Kyle

When I was little, my grandpa dies and the doctor said "We lost him." I thought he meant that they couldn't find him and my family was crying, but I wasn't.

Anonymous

When i was little, i used to believe that when you died and went to heaven, you would just sit on the clouds. I would yell up to relatives that had died and tell them who i was and how i was related to them. I would also talk to them about my life. When i went on my first plane ride, i was so scared that i wouldnt go near the window, fearing i would see corpses all over the fluffy white clouds.

JD