You know the scene in "Star Wars, Return of the Jedi" where Yoda dies? I was born the year that movie came out (1983), so I was quite young when I saw it for the first time. Because Yoda's body disappeared when he died, I therefore believed that whenever ANYONE died, their body disappeared. Don't ask me what I thought cemeteries were for, because I didn't exactly think this through.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- After watching Return of the Jedi, I belived that whenever you died you just dissapeared.— Nano
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I thought nipples disappeared at a certain age because Barbie never had them.Anon
- when i was younger, i thought that people disappeared when i wasn't with them.— Debbie
- I used to believe that it was the Star Wars "Tri-ology" instead of the Stars Wars "trilogy".— keith Key