when i was younger, i had these weird pains on my body a couple times a day that felt like pinching. it was right after my great grandpa died, and i was certain his ghost was following me around and pinching me to let me know he was still there.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- When I was younger I wanted to be a ghost when I grew up just like Casper.— Mandy
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- I used to beleive that all pains were headaches. So for example, I had headaches in my stomach, legs and arms.— James