I usd to believe that, all Americans were left handed and we all died when we reached our 100th birthday!

Greg Baron

I used to believe that if I cut the web of flesh between my thumb and forefinger that I would get Lockjaw (tetanus) and die.

"Tusitala"

I used to think that when you were dead, they could give you a pill to make you alive again. My brother and I used to play "hospital", and if one of us "died", the other would administer an "alive pill".

This was before I saw The Princess Bride, so you can imagine how hard I was giggling at the Miracle Max scene!

Athazagoraphobia

I used to believe that people can only faint once and if they fainted again, they'd actually die. So when i was about 8, my sister fainted on a car workshop because of sunstroke and i couldn't stop crying because i thought she was going to die the next time she fainted. When she woke up, i told her that "i'd take care of you so you won't die", she asked me what i meant and i told her. She laughed at me that she even forgotten about the heat and told me the real thing. I was in shock after she told me.

envster

When my Uncle Ben died (although he wasn't really my Uncle Ben, he was a freind of the family)my brother and I thought that he was in the attic (or to get to him, we would have to go through the attic) and so we treid to get up there. We talked about making something out of string to get us up there, and I put some brie in a bag, so that we wouldn't starve. We never did get up there, and the brie was forgotten about until my brother smelt it. It was thrown out, and the bag was washed.
We also thought that to get to him, we had to fill our selves with air. We had a balloon pump, so I put the nosle in my brothers mouth (I let him go fisrt, incase somthing bad happend) and I pressed on the pump. it didn't work, and we were disapointed.

Charlotte

I told my cousin's kid (5 years old) that if he made one of his eyes look into his other eye in the bathroom mirror that that night when he fell asleep he would die and go straight to hell and nothing could stop it. He tried it and got REALLY scared. He was up almost 2 days! ( I was about 26 when i did this but my cousin used to torture me when I was little so were even now)

alpope23

I was terrified of elevators because I thought that if I ever got stuck in one I would run out of air and suffocate. I would always take a few extra deep breaths before entering one so I'd have extra oxygen in reserve.

Me

I passed the Coroner's Court in Sheffield frequently, and regarded it with trepidation, since I thought that at an inquest the body of the deceased was in court, and that if I looked through the windows I might see a rotting corpse. I'm told that in the distant past this was actually so!

Ray Ward

I used to believe that souls were actually kites. & when people died, the kites would fly themselves up to heaven.

Dani

my nephew used to believe that when people died, they just needed new batteries.

p-daddy

When I was around 5 or 6, I remember telling everyone that since my grandma was dead, she was therefore allergic to being alive.

Katrina

When I was younger, I used to believe that the shapes in the clouds were the people or animals that had just died and were saying goodbye to everyone on their way to heaven.

Kristina

I used to believe that when people died they would go to heaven and be able to see everything I did...one of my mom's best friend died when i was bout 7 and anytime i did something embarrassing or felt like i was doing something i shouldnt (even if i was alone) i felt even worse because i thought she was watching me...so sometimes i would think not to do something because i didnt want her friend to see me but then i would always wonder if she could hear my thoughts as well...

MariC

wen i was about 6 my big sister told me that if i lay in bed so my feet were at the bottom a wicked witch would drag me by my feet under the bed and kill me i berlived it till i was 10 i used to sleep curled in a ball i still to this day dont like streching out in bed lol

how silly was 1

I used to think that when people had heart attacks someone came and stabbed their heart

Anon

this wasn't mine, but my uncle's.

in the 50's when he, the first-born of the family, was about 5 years old, my grandparents hired
a painter to paint a picture of him. because all people in the portraits he had seen during his short life were
already dead, he thought that being painted meant always getting killed. if I remember correctly he
had the most creepiest thought that portraits in general were made OUT OF PEOPLE.
when the day of the artist's arrival came closer, my lil' uncle became more and more depressed.
my grandparents were naturally excited about this whole project and counted days
as my uncle grew more and more anxious. finally, he burst into tears and
sobbed " please, mom and dad, I don't want to die...".
well, the things were sorted out and explained to him finally, the painting completed
and the dreaded portrait still hangs on his wall.

ingrid

I used to believe when young that the world was a rational place, to the extent that one would live an exact number of years and die on one's birthday. Childhood fears included the witch under the bed who would grab my ankle if I put a leg out of bed, and a fear that I would fall into the toilet, shrinking and disappearing around the u-bend as I fell.

Bob

I thought the cremations were for people that wanted their love ones buried at home.

Helen

Someone told me that I would die from blood poisoned if I got ink stains on my hands. A couple of days after being stained, I would see a blue line developing from the stain, and I'd be dead when the blue line reached the heart! I was terrified!

B

I used to believe that it was bad to look at a grave yard coz you might die quicker so I used to always cover my eyes when passing them.

Ales