When I was about 5 or 6 I used to think that the flower holders on the graves were breathing holes. I didn't realise that when you died, you didn't breathe anymore!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that when people died, they would stand up and walk to their own graves.— Mark (england)
- When i was younger i thought R.I.P on graves was a persons name, i always wondered why so many Rips died. — Jess
- Phil Collins song "I missed again" - I thought it was "I pis*ed again" - didn't realise he was an alcoholic?!Anon
- I used to believe when i was about 4 (now 15) that dinosours died because they didn't brush their teeth— gullable
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to think that the graveyard shift was men that dug graves at night.— bianca w.