When I was in elementary school there was one of those rumors going around that if you looked in the mirror and said some phrase a few times, a ghost would come out of the mirror. One of my friends told me that he did it, and that he had let the ghost go. I was afraid that the ghost would come in through my bathroom window, since it was on the loose somewhere out in the world!
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- 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 told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- If I pretend to sleep the ghost won't eat me
Anon - I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- I used to believe that Casper the Friendly Ghost lived in my dad's car.— Michael