Up until I was 6 years old, I thought "being grounded" meant being buried alive in the backyard. My parents never understood why, whenever they told me I was grounded, I would start crying hysterically and run screaming from the house.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought the cremations were for people that wanted their love ones buried at home.— Helen
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- When I was little, my mom told me that if I slept with socks on they would eat me alive.— Cindy