When I was about 6 yrs old they sent the first men into space. At around the same time I saw a funeral procession go past & asked my mum about it. "They have died & gone to heaven" she told me. For ages I thought that people went up in spaceships when they died.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- When i went to a funeral only a bit of the coffin was open so i thought when u died you turned into a migit.— Andrew
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- Turtles can fly. I believed it for ages.
My turtle got lost or probably died and I was told it flew away.Anon - when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish