My mate used to live near a cemetry and we would walk through it occasionally. He used to tell me not to walk on top of the old graves because you'd wake up the dead people.
We did a lot of jumping.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that when people died, they would stand up and walk to their own graves.— Mark (england)
- I used to think the song "Walk this way" by Arosmith went horse and sleigh insted of singing walk this way.— Derek
- I used to believe you could walk on clouds. And you would be able to walk in space on the edge of the world.— Alex
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- I used to believe I could walk on water— Junior....$...