When my brother was little, our grandparents died in a car crash, and he was maybe 3. We all explained that they were up in heaven with God and the angels. He started to wave at airplanes after that, and we finally found out he thought our grandparents were riding on airplanes, that's wat happened when you died.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe that airplanes took off like rockets.— Edene
- I used to believe airplanes were flying submarines.— Gullible isn't in the dictionary
- I used to believe that the roars from airplanes was the earth yawning.— Natasha