When I was about 4 or 5, I had seen some pictures in a family album of my great uncle who had passed away before I was born. I asked my mother what happened to him and she told me that he had died, and he had been buried. Later on I was exploring in our back yard and I came across a short pole stuck in the ground, which I assumed was my uncle Harry's grave.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- My uncle harry has a very long beard and a hariy face. I used to think he was a wizard.Anon
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- my uncle was a doctor, so when he told me his vw could fly, i believed.— boodles
- Up until I was nine my uncle told me that the round bales of hay were cow eggs.— Fred
- My uncle told me if you twist your bellybutton, your bum will fall off, I was terrified!— little2ft