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- If you don't hold your breath as you pass a cemetery you will die or become possessed.
- People killed in films or on TV die in real life.
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I always believed at 12am, all the dead people would come alive and eat anyone that was still awake. I can only imagine which parent told me that one.
Organick
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My grandmother died when I was 9. I asked my mother what had happened and she told me grandma had went to sleep and never woke up. I ended up being the only insomniac in my 4th grade class. It was years before I could sleep normal.
theresa
This on we must put half the blame on Stephen King. My mom was watching Carrie and at the end, when Carrie's hand pops out of the grave, my mom looked at me and said "that is what happens when you step on a grave." I still walk carefully in a grave yard.
Theresa
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I used to believe that when people died and were buried, the bottoms of their coffins would open, the dead person would fall out and join the underground party that all the other dead people were at. It's like I thought there was this huge party six and a half feet under the cemetary.
J.L.S.
When I was a child , I use to believe that I will live forever , but now I am not sure.
When I was little, I would play the old NES-SNES kirby games, in the games, kirby's mode of transport was a flying star. I thought when I died, an angel would come down, and send me to heaven on a flying star.
I think i'll take the stairs!
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When I heard of reincarnation, the ability to die and come back as a animal, I dug up a worm in the lawn and said,"Is that you, Uncle John?".
reincarnated as a worm
I used to believe you would instantly die if you touched a bullet
i used too think that when you died you went too heaven-and heaven was the sky and every cloud was a house for a dead person and when it rained god was happy raining god is crying etc etc.I also believed that you had too have flying lessons before you went too heaven because you needed too fly too be in heaven and if you failed the test you went too hell and hell is were the devil chops of your head.ouch.
NOT TELLING!!!!
I used to believe when a family member or friend passed away they would become a star.
Valarie
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When I was young, I never could understand how they could get the people pictured on the obituary pages to smile. After all, they were dead!
arline
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There is a girl in our Year 3 class (8 yrs old) whose nan has sadly passed away recently due to a stroke.
We were obvoiously concerned about her, particulary as she was displaying some really odd behaviour soon after the death - she kept walking up to her class teacher, and gently patting her on the arm and then standing back and staring at her intently.
It took a while, but we eventually worked out that she didn't understand why her nan had died, and was seeing if she could kill her teacher by giving her a 'stroke'!
Mr Staples
When I was 5 years old my grandmother died and when I saw her in the casket with the bottom part closed, I thought that the funeral home cut off the bottom part of their legs so they couldn't walk after they died. My dad told me that even after my grandmother was gone, she could still see me so I had nightmares that she was standing by my bed watching me sleep.
Starr
When I was a little girl I used to believe that when someone died and went to Heaven, they would literally have to travel to the sky. After watching a lot of cartoons the most logical way as I could see it, was for someone to sit at the top of a tree that had been tied to the ground, and then somone would chop over the rope and the person would be flung up to Heaven like in the cartoons!
LuLu
I USE TO BELIEVE IF YOU GET A CHILL, THAT MEANS SOMEONE STEPPED ON YOUR GRAVE
LINDA SMITH
I used to believe that everyone had a certain amount of oxygen in their body that they breath throughout your life, and when you run out of oxygen, you die. When I was little I would try not to breath too much so I would live long.
Jackie
My friends had dared me to put one of my dad's disposable razers against my throat, which I did, I thought I was going to die that night.
Shane
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You know the scene in "Star Wars, Return of the Jedi" where Yoda dies? I was born the year that movie came out (1983), so I was quite young when I saw it for the first time. Because Yoda's body disappeared when he died, I therefore believed that whenever ANYONE died, their body disappeared. Don't ask me what I thought cemeteries were for, because I didn't exactly think this through.
Allison
I used to believe that dying only happened in fairy tales (or if you were murdered). It was a belief that I clung onto with such absolute conviction that I can remember the very afternoon I asked my dad about it and where we were in the car (he was driving me to the mall) when he told me that everybody dies.
I used to think that when you died in the hospital, two nurses would take your body outside on a stretcher, put you down on the lawn, and watch as you floated up to Heaven.
AJ
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