While playing in the basement at age 5, I was fairly certain I had seen a ghost for a split second as it turned a corner. It looked like my next-door neighbor, only flat like paper.
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe my parents were superheroes, like the fairly oddparents!Anon
- I thought until fairly recently that bacon came from the skin of a pig and that's why it was so thin— Nate
- When I was very little, I used to think that there were two New Zealands because how it split on the map!— Azure Autumns