i used to believe that people didn't die but decided to spend the rest of forever underground in a dark casket. Also, if one dead person wanted another person's casket because theirs was nicer, they would have dead person fights in the less nice casket and the winner moved to the nice casket.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when i was in funeral the person in the casket was just asleep for a while— Edgar
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli
- I thought that when you went over a speedbumb it was a dead person who had been hit by a car!Anon
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon