I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe a dead end sign meant there was a graveyard at the end of the street or zombies — Still Out There
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav