When I was younger up until was about 9 I thought mannequins were real people who did that for a living. I was even terrified to walk by the ones at walmart afraid they would jump down from the stand and grab me.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to think that mannequins were real people who had been beheaded. Creepy thought....
Anon - 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)
- My dad he used to tell me that mannequins were actually people who had been frozen.— Alecia
- My little brother was afraid of toliets cuz he thought monkeys would jump out of his butt.— ~~~ Crazy Bro ~~~
- When I was younger I used to believe that when I hit an object they would feel pain like they were living.— Alice
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook