..I was told by my father that when you died they first would send you to Hell and fill you up with coal to first burn the evil out of you. Then you could go to heaven. Thats what Hell was for. He was just telling me this as a joke, but for a long time I thought it made sense.
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- I used to think that if I told even one little whhite lie, I would go straight to hell.— Debbie
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- I thought that if you wore the colour red, you would go yo hell. — Tone
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.