people

I was shocked when I found out that people actually bled after being shot.We never saw blood in the old black and white movies we saw on TV in the fifties.

Hollyin La

As a child, i was afraid of caskets and to this day i still am. My grandmother had a blanket i would never cover up in because it reminded me of the material inside of a casket was made of.

Taishi Rashid

i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.

waiting to die

My friend actually believed this. He was playing with a vegetable peeler, and his mum told him not to. When he asked why, she said "That's how Grandpa died." His grandpa had actually died of cancer when he was very young, so he had no reason not to believe this. As he got older he started to question it, as vegetable peelers aren't very sharp. He finally confronted his mum when he was about thirteen and she denied ever having said it. She still does now.

Anon

When I was about 6 I got stung by a bee and went screaming into my house thinking I was going to die. This due to the little "witch" down the street that loved to torture us younger kids. It took a trip to the doctor's to convince me otherwise.

J.S.

When we went past old graveyards that had been refurbished they would have put the fallen stones together toward the middle, because they weren't 100% sure where the bodies really were. I used to believe that in the olden days they buried people standing on their heads, so they wouldn't take up too much room.

DPW

My great uncle passed away when I was quite young. For some strange reason, I figured dead people would be put in their coffins to be burried naked (I guess I didn't see the use of them bringing any clothes along or something... Though maybe my not being able to go to the funeral was the tip-off.).

Anon

Growing up in the country, I would always see buzzards eating dead
animals. I was afraid that once you die, you get laid out in the field and
the buzzards would eat you. Still scares me today, but I know better now..

Mr.Warren

I used to believe that the process of death involved the persons body getting smaller and smaller until it wasn't there anymore.

Sarah Jane Waltman

I used to believe that when people died, they weren't really gone, that their spirits used to come back and either haunt you or help you -- depending on how you treated them when they were alive and if you were a good friend or not). Another thing I used to believe is that I had the sixth sense.

Stacie

When I was 4 years old my grandfather died--we did not go to the funeral but someone took a photo at the calling hours of the casket. My mother showed it to me after several months when it was developed and told me "See how Grandpa looks like he's sleeping?" I had just been to the gravesite, and thought everyone who was dead in the cemetary was buried in big rooms with pink curtains, candlebulb chandeliers, and plenty of flowers.

Billy

My grandmother died when I was too young to go to the funeral my older sister went and reported back to me that "Grandmother died of the goat disease". I believed this for many years. Years later we relized that my sister had over heard someone say that "the old goat" had died.

Seth

I used to believe that when I died, the whole world would end.

Paul Forbes