For about a week I thought that I was possessed by a ghost because I kept having laughing fits for no reason and couldn't stop for about two hours each time. I even convinced my little brother and his friends that I was and they tried to help exorcise it.
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- I thought that exorcise and exercise both meant the same thing— Dobby Bob
- I used to believe that I couldn't eat deviled eggs because they were from satan and possessed.— Char
- I beleived that the reason Birch trees were white was because they saw Casper the Freindly Ghost.— Anela
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- for years i was afraid to throw up because i thought it meant i was possessed like in the exorcist.Anon
- a friend was convinced that his school was an asylum, and couldn't be convinced otherwiseAnon