When he was little, my brother believed that cemeterys were where people went when they wanted to die, and that going into a cemetery automatically killed you. One day we were going for a walk that lead through a little cemetery. He started crying and said he wasn't ready to die yet.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.Anon
- i thought there was a door in the back of the tv and if you wanted to be on tv you just walk in— fred
- I believed that if I ate Ready Brek, I'd glow like in the TV ad. — Why Aren't I Glowing?
- while my son was crying one day, my little brother announced that "babies cry to let off moisture". ha!— i'm laughing WITH you
- when i was little i thought a serial killer was someone who killed people for their cereal— emily