My grandmother told us that when someone died, they went into the big hole. So, I figured that if grown-ups went into the big hole, kids must go into a little hole. I was petrified of getting too close to any hole, in fear of being sucked into it. This included nail holes in the wall where pictures used to hang, knotty pine wall panelling, all kinds of wierd stuff like that.
She also used to tell us that when you died, you went up the old wooden hill to heaven. For a long time, we were afraid to go to bed because we had to walk up the "wooden" stairs to get there. We either ran up as fast as we could, or walked up real slow.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....— Tina
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe that a cat's butt hole was on the tip of his tail.— PANTS
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- My dad use to tell me that if I swallowed gum it would plug up my bum hole and eventually I would explode,— Carrie
- I used to believe that if you farted really hard, you could fart a hole in your pants. How dumb was that?— stargirl