My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton.
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
- I used to believe that when people died, their bodies would immediately turn in to a skeleton— fv
- That a satchel was a skeleton, and I would have to wear a skeleton on my back for school!Anon
- My mom told me one day that she was going to a funeral. I thought it was a place to buy fruit.— Paulette
- I used to believe that if I went down the stairs slowly a red eyed skeleton would come and run after me.— Melly2bee
- i used to think that coloured people had the same colour skeletonAnon