When I was younger, I used to think that coffins were cans that you put dead people in so that other people can eat them like sardines... So when my uncle died, and I went to his funeral, I cried and I asked my mum "Are people going to eat uncle Joe?!"
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- i used to believe people were put in coffins because they were special cars that could drive you to heaven!— jym
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- when i was younger i thought that areoplanes drove dead people to heavenAnon
- Thunder was my dead uncle in heaven playing a round of bowling with God.— Mike
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey