When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to believe that speed bumps were dead bodies that had been paved over.— Natalie
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe that if I pumped in my sleep and breathed it in I would turn into a rotting turnip!— Quako