My grandpa died when I was four so my mom told me that he was sleeping at his wake since it was an open coffin but I had feeling he wasn't sleeping because my grandma was in tears. However my brother believed our mom and whispered in my ear "let's steal his watch" at the time he was six, I told him I wasn't sure and he said "Then he'll wake up and chase us" which was true when he was alive. So we did and my brother ran around the funeral home with my grandpa's watch while my mom chased after him. My grandparents lived next to two cemetries so I wasn't frightened of them (only at night) but I used to believe that if you stepped on where they buried someone then they would get mad and grab your leg and drag you down with them, I'm seventeen now and know it is far from true but if I can I will go around where the coffin is buried.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When i went to a funeral only a bit of the coffin was open so i thought when u died you turned into a migit.— Andrew
- when i was in kindergarten i believed that abe lincoln was buried in a cabin and not a coffin— lisa
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe that My grandparents didn't have any other name except grandma and grandpa.— Emelia
- I thought that life is a dream and when you die you wake up (maybe it's true who knows?)— Naos