I used to believe that our dead relatives were listening to all our thoughts and knew when we would sneak into my parents room and go through their stuff.

JRP

When i was younger i told my mom that i wanted to die in my sleep because if i died while i was just walking down the street it would hurt when i fell to the ground. ha.

i still wanna die in my sleep

I used to believe you would instantly die if you touched a bullet

Anon

After watching Return of the Jedi, I belived that whenever you died you just dissapeared.

Nano

I used to believe that lightning would actually strike a person if they lied and said may lightning strike me if I'm lying.

Anon

When the Queen Mother died when I was quite upset because I thought royalty did not die.

Carrie

When my Granny died when I was 5 we where riding in the family limo I looked out the window and saw the herse with my Great granny in it, And asked my mom where the buzzards where because I thought that when any thing died buzzards would circle over u until you where buried.

Sugar Foots

I used to believe that when you died no matter what your tongue hung out the side of your mouth.

Anon

When I was a kid, I'd heard somewhere the statistics regarding the number of deaths that occur in the world each minute. When there were major disasters or accidents with a high number of casualties, I believed that God was napping or distracted, and had to do something big to catch up to the statistic.

MS

When I was little, I thought you weren't supposed to have favorites in your family, you were supposed to love everyone the same. But secretly, my grandfather, my mother's father, was my favorite of my grandparents. He died when I was 8, the first of my grandparents to pass away and the only one to die during my childhood (didn't lose another g-parent til my 20's). For a long time I thought God took him away from me, to punish me for having a favorite and not loving all my grandparents the same.

Anon

I used to think that it would take forever to float up to Heaven because it was way up in the sky. I always pictured people floating up in space, and finally reaching the top.

EJ

I used to think dead people are dangerous.

J.G.

When I was about 4 or 5 my great granmother died. I was sad because I didnt get to go to her memorial. I thought it was a party..

mona

I used to believe that if you got soap in your mouth you would get really sick and could possibly die. This belief started because I went to go feed my rabbit one evening when I was six or so. My mom told me to wash out his water dish really well with soap, but to be sure that I rinsed it out well too. She told me to be sure that there was no soap in the dish when I gave it to the rabbit. I asked why and she said that it would make him very sick and that he could die. Needless to say I was very careful when rinsing out the water bowl. Later that night I was taking a shower and I got soap in my mouth (I guess I wasn't being careful enough then) I screamed and screamed for my mother, and when she came in frantic and I told her what was wrong, she explained to me as best she could that it was the rabbit's delicate system that would cause the problem, and that I had no reason to worry...

To this day I still HATE getting soap in my mouth, More that anyone else that I know of... and I am super careful...

Jenn

My 5 year old was really upset and concerned about dying. I told her that she had to be 90 to die and that she had a long way to go. A few months later, I had to go to a funeral. When I told her where I was going, she said oh, they were 90?

Jessica

i was always scared that when i saw the dead person in their cascet at the funeral, they were going to smile at me , but no one else could see the person, just me!

stephanie

until the age of 12, i used to believe that dead bodies come alive at night after everybody has slept.so i was afraid to go out at night after 9.00pm.

sgl

When watching movies or TV shows, I used to believe that when they 'found a body in the park', there was never a head attached.

Lorenza

every time i saw the sun shining through the clouds, i thought it was a person going to heaven,which meant lots of people died in the same places at the same time.

mim

The old vicar of our parish church is buried near the boundary of the churchyard - you can see the grave clearly from the road. At primary school, many of us believed that if you went to the churchyard at midnight on the anniversary of his death and said the right words (unfortunately for amusement purposes I cannot now remember them) you would see his ghost fall from the top of the church spire and into his grave.

I don't know where we got the idea he had topped himself by jumping off the spire, but many of us believed this for years. It was only as a teenager that my parents disabused me of this notion.

Anon