I had a nightmare that my uncle was a ghost and that he was trying to kill me. So whenever I saw him I would yell "EVIL GHOSTY" And run away. If I had salt I would toss it at him thinking he would go away.
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- I had an uncle that told me that we had belly buttons for putting salt in while we ate celery in bed.— ainmama2001
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- 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
- i used to yell at the moon and sun for following me— rachel