When my brother and I were little we thought that when people died they would say "die" then fall over and be dead.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to believe that the little 'helicopters' that fall from the trees were dead tadpoles.— Chester Finnigan SnapDragon McFisticuff
- I used to believe that "DEAD END: signs meaned it was the end of the world and you would fall off completely— Kristin