i used to believe that every tuesday night the dead would have a parade. for them it was a grand festival but if a human layed eyes on them the goblin leader of the parade would take a bone and rap it on your gate. that was a mark and and the goblins would come back the next day and kill you no matter what. the thought that there would be no escape once i was marked terrified me beyond words but i was so impossibly curious to see it. i used to stay up all night tuesday nights listening under my window for the sound of theyre music but i was always too scared to peek because i knew if i did they would see me and id be marked. i have no idea where this whole story came from!
A childhood belief about ghosts
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you went to the end of a road marked "Dead End", somebody would try to kill you.— Spooky
- I thought the Til Tuesday song said "Books are scary!", rather than "Voices Carry"Anon
- I got given a box of slime marked "alien puke" and asked if E.T. was all right.Anon
- I used to believe brussel sprouts were holy because they had a cross marked in the top when mum boiled them!— Ali Brill
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - I used to believe that the cows owned by my grandfather slept lying on the ground like a human at night.— Eric