I used to believe that if you didn't have a birthmark, you were never really were a born. I told my younger brother he was a ghost.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I was older than my brother because I was born in June and he was born in OctoberAnon
- When I was younger I wanted to be a ghost when I grew up just like Casper.— Mandy
- 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
- Untill I was about 15 I thought that the birthmark on Mikael Gorbachov's head was actually a map of the world.— Rob , Solihull
- When I was younger, my brother told me the police had an infra-red system and could see into everyones house.— Clare, Ireland