when i was about 5 or 6, my great grandma died. of course, i didn't understand, but i asked my mom where she went, and she told me that she flew to heaven on an air plane. i just lost a grandmother, and that is what i told my little brother, who is 3.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- Turtles can fly. I believed it for ages.
My turtle got lost or probably died and I was told it flew away.Anon - My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- I used to believe the dead flew up to heaven.— Pierre, a French student in eighth grade
- I thought that Heaven was literally up in the sky and you could fly there in a plane— Nate