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i used to think that you died on your birthday

Anon

I use to believe that on Halloween you shouldn't walk near or through cemetaries or you would see the souls of the dead floating above their graves. I thought that at midnight after all the kids were done trick or treating that all the evil beings would gather and have a meeting of how to cause chaos in there area that year

Lucy K.

When i was younger i used to think that when a person died they were thrown into the rubbish bin

georgina

When I was a little kid I use to think that when you died you just lied there on the floor in a star shape with your eyes closed. I know better now!!

Anon

When I was little I tried "painting" my nails with markers, and my mom told me to stop, because if I kept doing that, I would get hurt and go to the hospital. I believed this until i was about 10, hehe.

Amelia

Everytime I went to the dentist and he (actually, it has always been my grandpa) was about to take an Xray, I used to believe he was going to kill me!

Juliana

When I was little, I thought you turned into a Barbie when you died!

Anon

My mother told me rain at a funeral meant that God was taking that person to heaven. I thought it was a well known "thing" and convinced myself of it because most film and T.V. funerals have rain. It wasn't until my grandmothers recent funeral when I pointed out that it was raining that she told me she had made it up for me and my siblings when it had rained at my grandfathers funeral ten years earlier.

A.G

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

Anon

i used to bieleve that when you died you would come back as an animal and if you were bad in your life you would come back as small animal like an ant and if you were good you would come back as a big animal like a lion

kristin

When I was little, one time when we drove pass a cemetary, asked my mom what the field filled with stones was. She told me it was a cemetary. I was content with the answer, and didn't ask for any further explaination,despite the fact I didn't know what a cemetary was. Whenever we went by a cemetary, I would always point it out to my mom. Once when I was four, we drove by a really big cemetary. For some reason, I started sing, "We live in a cemetary!" My mom then said,"Dead people live in cemetaries." I thought that they took dead bodies and stuffed them into the headstone instead o f burring them.
When I was younger, just saying died, death, dying, passed away, or dead would make me scream in terror on the inside. So that added to the creep factor.
(When I started kindergarten and we learned a little about Martin Luther King, Abraham Licoln, and George Washington, when the teacher said something about how they died or when they died and stuff like that, I was terrified.)

Emmy

after watching titanic the first few times, i thought leonardo decaprio (jack) really did die on the titanic

Ashlee

I used to not know what autopsy ment, so I would get one of my teddy bears, rip their arm off, and perform a autopsy on it. Then my mom told me it was for dead bodys to see how they died.

Hayden

I thought, somehow, as a child that if you played chess and made a wrong move, you might blow up. I saw some show, I believe perhaps on Playhouse 90, that showed two men playing chess and there was an explosion so I believed that would have to me also.

Nancy O

When I was little I used to believe that when you died you got buried in your own yard.

catty

when i first herd abo0ut death i was very sad because it waws then at the age of 6 that i realise my grandad wasnt come back.
I also used to believe that when u died you went to hell and come back to earth as a wolf.

v.l.b

I used to believe that when someone died the ambulance would take them to the hospital where they would be brought back to life. I learned this was not true when my grandpa died when I was five.

Drucifer

I thought that when we died, we would already be laying neatly and calmly in our caskets, surrounded by friends and family who would sadly say goodbye and then we'd die and be buried.

Anon

I used to believe that whenever a church bell rang, someone had died.

Pallas Athene d'Wise

When I was in kindergarden, a boy told me to never wipe off sweat and if I do, I will die.

anon.