On a trip to the mountains, my uncle told me and my cousins that the sign, "Watch out for Falling Rock" meant that the ghost of the evil Indian chief, Falling Rock, was loose and that we had to watch out for him because he liked to murder kids. I avoided the mountains for years.
A childhood belief about ghosts
others believed things like this
- I used to look for an Indian along the roadside because of signs that stated
"watch for fallen rock"— pam petry - My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- I used to believe the the Elton John song, "Crocodile Rock" was about a Crocodile, named Rock.Anon
- When I was around seven years-old, my friend and I put a rock in a microwave and thought it would melt.— Lars
- when i was young i used to believe that the sun goes down behind the mountains into the earth— confused
- I used to think that mountains were actually buried dinosaurs.— Jena