As a child I believed that when people died a kind of huge soul vaccuum would hover over the deceased's houses and then suck people's souls out up to heaven through some kind of tube. But as time went on and I physically never saw these tubes the belief finally was replaced with atheism
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When i was little i used to believe that i could suck up a tornado in a vaccuum if it came in my house.Anon
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- I used to think people were made of dirt and mayonnaise. I kind of rememeber picking this up at church.— julia
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know