I used to beleive that the sighting poles and crosses used in motorway construction sites were actually the hastily dug graves of the poor workers who had died creating the transport system!
A childhood belief about road signs

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that when people died, they would stand up and walk to their own graves.— Mark (england)
- When i was younger i thought R.I.P on graves was a persons name, i always wondered why so many Rips died. — Jess
- for my first Internet year, i believe all the ".ca" sites stands for Calif State websites.— ray cheng
- I used to believe that "the motorway" was one big long road that went absolutely anywhere in the world!!!Anon
- I used to dig a super deep hole thinking it
would transport me to the galaxy — Rafaella - I used to think that the graveyard shift was men that dug graves at night.— bianca w.