When I was 5, I walked into my parents' room to see the shadow of someone lying dead on the floor. I went screaming to my mom; and when I brought her back, the person was gone.
She told me that it must have been the ghost of "the lady who turns on the streetlamps at night".
After that, I stayed afraid of the moment of when streetlamps would turn on at night.
A childhood belief about ghosts
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the cows owned by my grandfather slept lying on the ground like a human at night.— Eric
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie