I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- when i was in kindergarten i believed that abe lincoln was buried in a cabin and not a coffin— lisa
- 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
- When I was young, I really used to believe that 'R.I.P.' (on a gravestone) meant 'Return If Possible.'— Colin
- I thought the cremations were for people that wanted their love ones buried at home.— Helen