When I was little, and we were sneaking around trying to be quiet, everytime I peered out into the hallway or around a corner, I would whisper "The ghost is clear". My brother or friends, never knew I was saying "ghost" instead of "coast" because I was whispering, so they didn't correct me. It was a really long time before I discovered it was "coast". I was embarrassed.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to say " The ghost is clear!" Instead of "The coast is clear"— Jake
- 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 think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- If I pretend to sleep the ghost won't eat me
Anon - I used to believe that Casper the Friendly Ghost lived in my dad's car.— Michael