When I was little, there was a man in our church's choir who sang off-key and just a few beats behind the other singers. When the singers paused for a breath, you still could hear his voice, echoing eerily. I thought he was the Holy Ghost.
A childhood belief about hymns

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
- My cousin used to believe the singers in the radio were ants....— EJH
- I used to think the TV show "The Sopranos" was about opera singers.— Innocent Kid
- I used to think that singers couldn't talk-they could only communicate by singing.Anon
- My cousin used to think that a group of nine singers was called a "niner".Anon