When ever my family would go to the graveyard to visit already departed family I would never get out of the car for fear that the buried people ( not just my family) would reach up and grab around your ankles and pull you in. To this day I still try to walk around the direct spot of burial.

Tallulah

As a kid I used to believe that the flower holders in cemetaries were for the dead people to come out of their coffins to take a drink from after they were filled up by relatives when they left flowers.

Lesley G

When I was younger I thought you could die only from being shot or hit in the head or the heart. I have now found out you can die from everything from an undercooked hamburger to alcohol poisoning, just to name a few.

Billy Bob

i used to believe that i could avoid death by locking myself in a closet.

babie

When i was a child, my mother asked my younger sister and myself to go down and sit with our dying gran, until our aunt could take over. We arrived at gran's, she was asleep in a very dark bedroom with some awful radio station playing in the back ground. After a while my younger sister who was by now terribly bored, leaned over to me and said in a loud whisper "is she dead yet, cos Blue Peter starts in five minutes and we will miss it" As a matter of fact, gran managed to struggle on for another three years or so.

Anon

Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed

MrK

One day when I was 4 years old I asked my mother how her mother had died. Rather than try to explain what heart disease was, she told me that my Grandma had a really bad heart that just wouldn't keep working.

Years later, we had a house full of people and I began explaining to a large group that my grandmother was soooo mean, it killed her!

My mother was really upset with me, until she realized that she was the one who had told me about Grandma's "bad heart." She then changed her wording to "sick heart"

Kalgirl

I used to believe that when you died, your tongue would automatically stick out. Whenever I played dead, I would stick my tongue out. When I was 9, my brother told me I stupid after I "died" during a game of "cops and robbers."

Depressio

When I was little I went to my Aunts house for a visit. She had a set of steps paved with smooth tiles that led to the basement. As she led me down the steps she told me to be careful because the steps were a little slippery and you could fall and hurt yourself or even die. I started to look around everywhere and then asked her where all the dead people were. The best part was her answer: "You don't just leave them lying around like that!"

Anon

I used to believe that if you went down a dead end, you would die. So if me mum every turned down those streets I would shout out "NO! were going to get bombed!"

Jessica B.

Before I knew about death, I used to believe that people grew up, got old, and then grew down again and got young, so that people were just in a constant state of flux.

Anon

i used to belive that when someone in your family dies, that they can watch your from heaven
(or else were) and they can see everything you do. liek showers, and baths, and other things. i still wonder about it now and im 13.

i also used to belive that when u die god would make you watch a video tape of your life from birth to when u died, and he wouls lecture you about things u did wrong.

olivia

When I was like 7, my dad made me start using mouthwash. Upon inspecting it, I stumbled across the part of the label reading "if more than used is swallowed, contact your local poison center immediately."

This frightened me beyond all reason, and the first time I used it, I tried so desperately not to let any of it seep down my throat. But of course, I ended up swallowing a tiny bit, and spent the whole night crying and reflecting on my short life. How surprised I was when I woke up the next morning just fine and dandy.

J

When I was 4 or 5 years old, I used to believe that my brother was going to die first because he was older than me. When we used to argue and he'd tease me, I would say "Well you're gonna die before me anyways HAA HAA," until one day when my mom heard me and told us that it wasn't true. Much to my brothers relief i'm sure.

Cristina

When I was little I thought your hair grew when you died. When I was 4 or 5 my Great Grandma had no hair because she was sick and when we went to her wake she had a wig on and i was scared. Lame I know.

Anon

I used to believe that convicts who had done really serious crimes, and have had death sentences were forced to play part in a theatre or film production where they would be killed on set (aka, actors who die). This was inspired when I went to watch a play in the threater where someone was "hung" on stage. I now know, they were wearing a harness.

stefan

I used to believe that when people died their eyes turned into X's, like on the cartoons. Oh and I thought your tongue hung out when you died so every time I played dead I had my tongue out... lol

X-P

I used to believe that when you had a ringing in your ear that any person that you thought of at that moment would die.

J.C. Summerlin

When we went past old graveyards that had been refurbished they would have put the fallen stones together toward the middle, because they weren't 100% sure where the bodies really were. I used to believe that in the olden days they buried people standing on their heads, so they wouldn't take up too much room.

DPW

i used to believe that you had to eat a ton of earth on your death bed as my dad told me so, what he actually meant was that this is a gradual process that happens over your entire life time!

sara cole