There was this very big tree in front of our school. Not only me but all the students (till 3rd grade) in our school used to believe that if we touch it we would turn into Ghosts! Now that was scary and we used to stay as far away from the tree as possible.
I went there after I was quite grown up and believe me I didnt touch the tree even then.
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny
- I used to think that broccoli was a shrunken-down tree,Anon
- I used to believe that buckeyes (from the tree) were baby porcupines...— Minerva