When me and my cousin were young, we believed there was a ghost in one of my grandparents bedroom closets. So, we tried to "fight" the ghost using toilet plungers. I carried around the manual plunger while my cousin used the heavy-duty automatic "super-sucker". Boy, were we weird!
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- I used to think a second cousin meant a cousin’s cousin.— Carlos Almonacid
- If I pretend to sleep the ghost won't eat me
Anon - 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