Until I was about 12 years old or so, I thought Heaven was on the Moon. My grandfather had died when I was young and whenever I asked Granny where he was, she would point to the Moon. Needless to say, seeing Neil Armstrong step foot on "Heaven" was disconcerting.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that stars were people in heaven and the moon was god— Jessica
- I used to think that the moon and stars were holes in the sky that you could see heaven through.Anon
- i used to think that the moon would follow you in the car, also that it looked like a half moon.— natalie k
- I used to believe that Moon is the kid of Sun, because it has less light and Moon smiles with kids. — Syed Arbab Ahmed
- I always saw a crocodile on the moon, none of this man-in-the-moon nonsenseAnon
- when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish