I was 5 years old when my 96 year old great grandmother died. As my mom was trying to explain this to me, I remember asking her "If they scooped her bones off the floor." For some reason I thought that when you die, you are always in bed, and you instantly turn into a skeleton, and your bones fall to the floor! My mom had a tough time with that one!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to believe that when people died, their bodies would immediately turn in to a skeleton— fv
- My brother used to be scared to poop in the potty. He thought that he was pooping out his bones.— Lillyth
- My mum told me that if you picked your nose and flicked it on the floor then it would turn into a monster!— MadMack
- When I was about 4 or 5, I used to believe that instead of bones, we had metal pipes. — TL
- I used to believe that the chunks in chunky peanutbutter were actually bonesAnon