I used to believe in horror movies that we watched with my family and they would tell me that if you don't pay attention or don't eat, the ghost catches you.
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that what happened in science fiction/horror is movies was realAnon
- 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 think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero
- If I pretend to sleep the ghost won't eat me
Anon - 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