I used to think the sound of a heavy church bell was meant to be the chime of doom, and that God was ringing it himself as a ghost. Grim but still funny.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- i used to think that i was a werewolf and that at night i played poker with the grim reaper— mike
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- I used to believe that Alexander Graham Bell was not just one person. I thought that they were three people!— J.D.
- I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy