I used to think that if you went to the end of a road marked "Dead End", somebody would try to kill you.
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.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 used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to believe the "Yield" from the road sign was somebody's name.— julia