people

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.

DeeDub

I used to believe that if you went over a dead end, you would die.

CoyoteBitch

When I was a child, I used to believe that when people died, they went to the moon, so I wanted to become an astronaut to see my dead relatives.

Dani

When I was young and folks or animals passed away at very old age my mother would say they "died of old age". I remember believing this was an actual cause of death, like there wasn't some disease or ailment caused by age that did it, but that an old thing literally just died with no traceable reason aside from the fact that they were old, as if there was no exact explanation and at a certain age all the organs just collectively shut down at once and the person just died. I believed this until I was 17 and can even remember the conversation that led to my realization that I was wrong.
"Great grandma passed on a month ago", I said.
"Oh no! What caused it?" The lady asked.
"Old age"
"Right but how did she die?"
"She died of old age"
My mother then pulled me aside to explain that just being old doesn't kill people, it's other real problems that come with it. I was so frustrated with my own cluelessness

A very confused person

when I was child I used to belive that the deads appears in the nigth when the lights turn off. I grew up thinking that was real.

Anon

When I saw Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, I became convinced it was possible to die by loosing the will to live. This was pretty vague though, so one day when I accidentally let go of a balloon I was holding, I thought I was going to loose the will to live.

Danny

My cousin convinced me that if you had a headache for an hour or more that you would die.

Anon

I used to believe that people were buried in "grates".

Grate Job

I used to believe that just touching bug-killing poison would result in you dying in an hour. I once was at my village, and I accidentally touched a plant which was all sprinkled in said poison. I spent a lot of time worrying that I was going to die at any moment - I didn't know how much time an hour was!

The girl who didn't quite understand how bug poison worked

I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a baby

Anon

I used to think they did an autopsy every time someone died regardless of how they actually died.

Marideth

Until i was twelve i thought when all people died they closed their eyes because that's what you see and funerals and on tv

Molly

when I was a kid I used to believe that the sausage factory used children

lucas

when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die

milena

The stars are the souls of your dead friends and family. The first ones you see are them.

Sierra

When I was a child,I used to believe the people would die on their birthday and when it was my birthday I was scared to die ...happy birthday!!

Vanessa