On a bit more of a darker side, when I was little and I first heard my mother say "You're grounded", what I really thought she meant was that she was going to kill me and put me in the ground! --'ground dead'
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- 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 always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.— Helen
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL