When I was about 3 years old, and my parents took me to the cemetery to visit the family graves, it gave me a queer feeling when I was told that our loved ones were underground. I pictured them being trapped down there, and I had a sense that they were aware of my walking around on the ground above them. I thought that if I stepped on their tombstone they would be mad at me and psychically shout, "Hey, don't step on my stone!" Also, when my mom or dad pulled out the water can for the flowers from its hole in the ground, I dared not to look into the hole, thinking that the dead relative would be looking back up at me. I also thought that if you stuck your hand in the hole they would grab your hand from below.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to dig a super deep hole thinking it
would transport me to the galaxy — Rafaella - Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....— Tina
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie