I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- I used to think that if you went to the end of a road marked "Dead End", somebody would try to kill you.— Spooky
- I used to believe that when my fish died and floated to the top, it was playing dead.— Alycia T
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon