One night, I heard an ambulance accompanied by a loud, awful moaning sound. I thought it was from the spirit of the dying person being carried away in the ambulance. I turned out to be the neighbour's dog.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My mom thought "ambulance" was "ambliance"— Molly
- Our mum told us that the ice-cream van noise was a children's ambulance— moonpants & sausage
- This may sound absurd but I thought the numbers next to the Bible versus said what time the person said it at!— Biomeka
- As a child I believed that cats, when they died, became owls and always accompanied you. — AdryLiz
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was actually coming from the twinkle of the stars.— Lily Fagioli
- I used to believe that the sound of crickets at night was the noise the stars made when they sparkled. — Jane