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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 believed that when my parents told me they had to go to a funeral and they were going to "calling hours", that they were in fact going to go and sit at a large conference table and answer the phone when people called. I was 22 when I realized the truth at the first funeral I attended.
Laura, New Bern, NC
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When I was little, my older sister and I were looking at a sunset. She told me that the sky was red from the blood of all the dead people in heaven. I believed that for a long time.
Mary
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I used to think everyone went to heaven in a pink trashcan (my grandmother had one in her bathroom when she died) and that the care-bears pulled them up in it with some sort of pulley.
I was a little off
Liz
I used to believe that if i took the covers off at night i would freeze to death.
RockerGirl
wen i wuz little, like 4 (ten years ago) i thot that a the graveyard (cemetary) was spelled "g-r-a-v-e-y----ard" i kno it sounds stupid but its really funni cuz i thought that the ground was made of gravey.
Dying Again
i used to believe people were put in coffins because they were special cars that could drive you to heaven!
jym
I uswed to believe that as long as someone lived to be 100, it was ok and you didn't have to be sad about it.
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My mother died when I was 6. For years I thought she was buried under my bed. To this day, as an adult, I never keep anything under my bed or look under it.
Shelly
I used to believe that everyone carried maggot "eggs", or "larvae" in their bodies and when they died, the maggots knew it and came to life to eat your body.
J
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I once heard the story of Rip Van Winkle and from then on I thought the reason they wrote R.I.P. on gravestones was because the people were sleeping.
Solan
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When I was young, I saw a very tall gravestone and I asked my mom why it was so big. She replied "He must have had a lot of money" so for the longest time, I thought that when people died, all the money they had was kept inside the gravestone.
littleflower0624
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I was raised Catholic, and when I was very small, the Funeral Mass was very confusing. I was just getting to the age when I could understand what the priest was saying, and I came to the conclusion that the people receiving communion were actually eating the dead person. The really scarey thing is that I don't remember the idea bothering me!
Angela
I looked up death in the dictionary, and it said something about not breathing and having no heartbeat, so I would try to lie very still and not breathe in order to have a near-death experience.
i used to believe, when i was about 4 years old, that if you swallowed an ice cube you'd die.
Kritikaa
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I used to believe that my lego car was a reincarnation of my grandfather. You shoudl have seen my reaction when it was accidentally smashed by my mom. I was devestated and did not talk to anyone for a week.
mainframecentral
I used to believe that when you visited a graveyard, the ground would suck you in and that is how you died.
Megan
I used to believe that your life expectancy was inversly proportional to how much you talked. The more you talked, the sooner you died. And you couldn't go through life not talking to anybody, which is why people didn't live forever.
gerald626
I used to think that when people were killed in the movies they were actually killing very old people that were dressed up to look young (I figured it was cause they wouldnt live much longer anyway). I was terrified for the day my Grandparents would have to be in a movie.
mappy
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i used to think that people didnt die i just thought when they turned 100 they started all over agian thats also why i thought old people were so short.
Zach Tennant ,WV
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I was once at home in the kitchen. No one else was home. I made some toast. It got stuck in the toaster. So I put a knife in it to get the toast out. I got a huge electrical shock. I thought I was dead, but I wasn't sure, so I walked around the house, not touching anything (just in case) waiting for someone to come home to tell me whether I was dead or alive.
Barbara
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