When I was a kid, my mum said that bad kids were taken by a ghost and will never give them back if they will never change they’re attitudes.
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 thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.— Briony Maggs
- I used to believe that the lyrics to Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" were "You give love a Band-Aid".Anon
- 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