When I was about 4, I was so scared to go to my bedroom alone, because
there was a painting of fish hanging on the wall, and I had seen a painting
of a ghost before, so I thought that all paintings where actually where ghosts
lived, and I was afraid that the "ghost-fish" would all come out and torment
and torment/kill me. I would never tell my mom why I was scared because
I was afraid she wouldn't believe me and think I was stupid [which I was, in
that case]...
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- i used to beleive the ice cream man was a fish man - becuase i hated fish.— jordan
- Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.Anon
- i used to believe the white part in fish meat is because of the fish's milk— Kim