The old vicar of our parish church is buried near the boundary of the churchyard - you can see the grave clearly from the road. At primary school, many of us believed that if you went to the churchyard at midnight on the anniversary of his death and said the right words (unfortunately for amusement purposes I cannot now remember them) you would see his ghost fall from the top of the church spire and into his grave.
I don't know where we got the idea he had topped himself by jumping off the spire, but many of us believed this for years. It was only as a teenager that my parents disabused me of this notion.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- My fiance was in church as a kid and he saw the Vicar of the church and asked his Mum if it was God.— Andys fiancee
- I used to believe that,if you stood on someones grave,that their ghost would follow you home.— Bridie
- Never point at a grave, if you do your finger will rot off.— KL.R
- I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy
- When i was about 4 or 5, for the longest time, i believed that the preist of our church was god.— hunnybee
- I used to believe that if you walked directly over someone's grave, they would haunt you forever.— jonee