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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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When I was about four or five, I think, I used to think that people were buried with their heads sticking up out of the ground. This never bothered me...
...Until the day I remember it raining very hard and I got very worried. I told my mother that I was worried for all the dead people and she asked why and I told her I was afraid they'd drown.
She asked me why I thought that the dead people were buried with their heads above ground.
"So that they can talk to people," I said.
My mother was shocked. "Talk to people? But honey, they're dead."
"But why else would so many people go visit their relatives at the cemetary?" I asked her.
To this day, I smile whenever I see people visiting gravesites. Their loved one may not be talking to them, but the memories are.
Sandy Layne
WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I USED TO BELIEVE THAT WHEN PEOPLE DIED IN MOVIES THAT THEY DIED IN REAL LIFE.WHEN I SAW THEM IN ANOTHER MOVIE I SAID TO MYSELF "I THOUGHT HE DIED."
MELY850
Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed
MrK
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When my brothers and I used to play as kids and one of us got shot we would play dead with our arms out streached and our feet crossed. We grew up catholic and the only dead person we had ever seen was Jesus on the cross.
Donna
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I was about 6 when my great-grandpa died, but wasn't allowed to go to the funeral. Somehow I came to the conclusion that they must be stringing up the corpse and making it dance around like a marionette. When I saw this happen with Mr. Burns on the Simpsons last year, I almost injured myself from laughing so hard.
Brian J. Wright
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I was five when my grandmother died. My mom told me she would be cremated. I asked what that meant. She told me they would put her in an oven until she was burned to dust. I was horrified by the image of how they would have to chop her up in order to fit her body into a kitchen oven.
Ed
My sister used to think that because I was 15 months older than her, I would die 15 months before her!
Nicola Braden
During my childhood days,I think that when people became dead ,there next birth will depend on the following
"When you are rich this time then the next time you will born as a poor person and vice versa"
and i dont know what will happen to the people like me , since I born in moddle class family
Prakash N Gandhi
When I was a kid, I used to believe people died once they were over 21.
Pleased my mother for years though, because I refused to believe she was older than 21, even though she had turned 40! :)
K
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I used to believe that when people died they went to Devon. A neighbour told me my grandad had gone to Heaven and I didn't know whwere that was but we went on holiday to Devon every year so it made sense.
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When our pet bird died I saw a cloud shaped like a bird. The same thing happened with my dog, so I thought you became a cloud when you died.
Vicky
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I used to think that funeral homes fulfilled the same function as nursing homes, only they has a much less euphemistic name.
zusty
I used to believe that if you counted the number of cars in a funeral procession that someone in your family would soon die.
Sid
As a Methodist child I learned that people were sent to be angels when they died. (My nan's dog became an angel-dog too.)
So when I saw paintings and statues of cherubs and Eros, I found them disturbing because to me they were dead babies and children- very spooky indeed.
Carla
I had heard the story of the creation at Sunday School and how God took a rib from Adam to create Eve. My Grandad died soon after and by coincidence a new baby was born in the family about the same time, so I was convinced that God had been taking ribs out of Grandad and he died when he ran out of ribs!
Ruth
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When I was little, I heard my Dad say that someone would probably die at the weekend. I didn't know what a weekend was, so from then on, I assumed that the 'weekend' was when we were all going to die. I could never understand it when my mum would tell me that we were going to do something at the weekend, because I assumed we would all be dead. I believed this for years.
sue
I used to believe that if I didnt get every single piece of paper into the waste bin on every throw that something awful would happen to my mum and she would die.
Glen
i used to believe that if you walked past a funeral parlour or a church when a funeral was going on, you had to hold your breath and cross your fingers or you would die with a red cross on your hand. The end.
shazza
On a flight to America my dauther asked if she would see her Gran in the clouds as we passed through them. Her Gran had died the month before.
Morag
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I believed that when some one died they became skeletons right away, So when my nana died I did not want to see her.
Meghan
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