My grandmother once showed me a photo of a little girl in a photo album. She told me that this girl used to live next door, and that she was playing in her room one day. Her parents, who were downstairs, heard a thump from her room, and when they got there, she was dead on the floor. She had been playing with a plug socket, and had been electrocuted. This gave me the worst nightmares of my childhood.
I later found out that the girl in the photo was my Aunt, aged about 4. I have no idea why Nana told me this, it was completely unprovoked, and we hadn't been discussing anything to do with electricity etc when she told me...we had been having a great time looking at old pictures!!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- i used to believe when someone died their image on photo's would disappear— beryl's girl
- If you left a plug socket on with no plug in all the power would run outAnon
- When I was younger, I saw Madonna's video for "Material Girl". I thought she was singing "I'm a Cheerio Girl"!— Greg
- I used to believe that the words to Michael Jacksons "Liberian Girl" were "librarian girl".— Paul
- That Madonna sang "I'm a cheerio girl" instead of material girl— HN
- I always thought instead of saying "Im a material girl" Madonna was saying "Im a cheerio girl".— Tiffany