Whenever I was younger I thought that the sign "Dead End" literally meant you would die if you went to the end of the road. I was terrified because I lived on a dead end street.
A childhood belief about road signs
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 a dead end sign meant there was a graveyard at the end of the street or zombies — Still Out There
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I used to think that if you walked down a dead end street you would die.— holly
- I used to think that if you went to the end of a road marked "Dead End", somebody would try to kill you.— Spooky