i watched too many vampire movies when i was small (still do i suppose). beacusase vamipres always slept in coffins, i thought that the dead people at funerals were vampires, and all the people there were there to put a wooden stake through the persons chest
A childhood belief about vampires

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- i used to believe people were put in coffins because they were special cars that could drive you to heaven!— jym
- I used to believe that if you slept with the covers covering your neck, vampires couldn't bite you. — Moot
- I used to believe that the people who take your blood at the doctor's office were vampires. — Andy
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon