My father told me at one time that Richard Dean Anderson, my childhood hero from MacGyver had died in real life. I was so upset until recent years when I saw Stargate. Happy as a squirrel since then.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- In my childhood I used to think that all the superheroes I saw on television existed in real life— Cris
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- My dad told me SPAM was made of Squirrel, Possum, and Mice YUM YUM — Suzanne
- When the Queen Mother died when I was quite upset because I thought royalty did not die.— Carrie
- My father told me that Spam was a mix of sparrow and ham. I believed this for years lol— Tara the Terror