My partner used to believe that cul de sacs were full of dead hens. This was because her mother who had a strong Yorkshire accents and had told her they were dead 'ens!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the sky was full of dead people and I would see them if I went high enough— Maria
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- My dad told me that raisins were the dead flies from the windowsill— Kellie
- My parents told me that Jesus visited Santa Claus when he was dead for three days. — Rick Hamell
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- I used to believe that if you went over a dead end, you would die. — CoyoteBitch