I never knew what the empty gas containers were for, but being round and made of metal stilts, I believed they were ghost coliseums. The ghosts, which looked ike traslucent skeletons, would sit on the stilts and watch whatever was in the middle of the 'coliseums'. That is to say, nothing. I knew it must be something awful, so I did not take the risk of imagining wht it might be. No-one ever told me I was wrong, but as I'm now fourteen and no longer believe it, clearly my common sense intervened.
A childhood belief about ghosts
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- When I was a child I thought that dogs can see ghosts but now I think that they can sense disaster— Steven Altamirano
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- when i was 2 or 3 believed that i had lots of animals in my tummy it made sense my mum had baby in hers.— kjc
- i used to think when you sleep your eyes turened round to watch performances in your head— rasverone
- I used to believe that there was special metal laid in the motorways that made the cars go faster!!— angela