My grandmother died when I was too young to go to the funeral my older sister went and reported back to me that "Grandmother died of the goat disease". I believed this for many years. Years later we relized that my sister had over heard someone say that "the old goat" had died.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- When i went to a funeral only a bit of the coffin was open so i thought when u died you turned into a migit.— Andrew
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- I used to believe that when we died (and animals) died they were picked up in a bus with there name on it.— Lawny