when I was younger I used to believe that ghost were just people from the future. Here was my theory, when you saw a ghost, someone from the furure, the only reason that they would fade away was because they had changed the future. By changing them they would have to go because it it changed the future.
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- When I was child I used to believe the future going to be similar like in the film Back to the future part 2 — Frankie
- I used to believe that the cars of the future could fly.Anon
- I used to believe that the hoverboards in Back to the Future 2 were real.— Negman
- 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 beleived that the reason Birch trees were white was because they saw Casper the Freindly Ghost.— Anela