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I was over at my friend's house when I was about 4, and her folks were watching something about Elvis on TV. I didn't know who he was as my folks were more Rolling Stones/Beatles/Dylan fans.

My friend was a whole 6 mos older than me, and thought she knew everything. So she she started telling me all about him, and I swear she told me that he died from drinking too much grape juice.

It put me off drinking grape juice for many years, much to the puzzlement of my mom.

And I don't remember this too well, but my parents tell me I came home that day and did a wicked Elvis impersonation - You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog - complete with the hip/leg thing. I don't know, since I don't remember (or have repressed it, lol). It is a mystery.

For the record, as a grown-up, I am not a particular fan of Elvis, but I don't dislike him either.

Ellusion

I use to believe that if you faint half your life was gone. I remember when I was about 6, my sister had fainted, and I started crying. My reason being is that I thought my sister had lost half her life.

If this was true, I would have been dead now. I'm glad that I can say it was an 'I used to believe' theory.

Bazinga

I remember i used to believe that after death we were reborn...
When i was 4 years old, on sunday, i went to eat at my grandparents. As i used to believe that after death we were reborn, i took my teddy and i gave it to my grandfather and told him "take grandfather, it's for your rebirth".
My grandfather said "When we die, we don't come to life again"
Since, then have been very choched but it helped me realize that we only have one life and we have to enjoy it.

Anon

My grandmother once showed me a photo of a little girl in a photo album. She told me that this girl used to live next door, and that she was playing in her room one day. Her parents, who were downstairs, heard a thump from her room, and when they got there, she was dead on the floor. She had been playing with a plug socket, and had been electrocuted. This gave me the worst nightmares of my childhood.
I later found out that the girl in the photo was my Aunt, aged about 4. I have no idea why Nana told me this, it was completely unprovoked, and we hadn't been discussing anything to do with electricity etc when she told me...we had been having a great time looking at old pictures!!

Mairin

i believed in reincarnation and wen u died u come back as a pet, so ur pet now could of been the soul of an old man or woman

Tara

When I was in 1st grade I had to stay after and wash the chalkboard. And as I was washing it I had a nickle in my mouth. Well I reached up to clean the high part of the board and swallowed the nickle and for the longest time I thought I was going to die.

Stephanie

hello, I'm french so, excuse me for my english language ....When I was little, I used to believe that when we are born, we never die !!!super !!! But now, I am sure ( unfortunalety ) when we will be old, we will die

nono

When I was younger, 4-5 years, me and my bro. liked to swim a lot. Our mom, ever anxious about our well being, told us that if we EVER went to swim in the lake, and drowned, that she would then give us such a spanking, that we couldn`t sit for two weeks. Anyway I believied this for many years...

AquaMan

when i was little, i was deathly afraid of dying. i would have my dad check my pulse every night before i went to bed just to make sure my heart was still beating. i had this fear until one day my mom and dad took me to the hospital to have a full check up to show that i was healthy.

tori

My father told me at one time that Richard Dean Anderson, my childhood hero from MacGyver had died in real life. I was so upset until recent years when I saw Stargate. Happy as a squirrel since then.

Linda Marika

My brother used to tell me when mum went out that she'd been killed in a car crash and was never coming back.

Jessi Malfoy

When my grandma died and was at her funeral I thought she was just sleeping and thought she would wake up and attack me cuz I watched 2 much Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the time and they always wake up

Pamela

when my sister and I were young, she told me that if I went to sleep laying on my back, i would die. I believed her for years.

wtf

When I was a little girl (like 5-6 yoa), my grandmother explained to me that people are buried after death. Obviously, I got uncomfortable with the idea of being beneath the ground forever and not feeling anything, so she told me that a tree can grow on a dead person's burial site. I thought people could be buried anywhere (not just at cemeteries) and started to worry that passers-by could hurt me by picking at my leaves. So I asked my grandma if there'd be a way to protect me from that, to which she replied that people shouldn't do that kind of stuff with any tree...

Anon

when i was little i was convinced i had an explanation to why nobody was ever actually dead and that no one died! i think it had to do with the fact the body was still there and didnt just disappear therefore they were still alive. if only i could remember my theory who knows i may have held the mystery of death and the afterlife in my hands and just thrown it away! (there again it could also have been the fact i was about 5 and my nan had died 2 years before and i was still trying to cope with that!!)

FunkyCherry

When I was very young I used to love the smell of petrol (gasoline), and one day my sister told me one of her friend's brothers liked the smell so much that he drank some. This, in turn, caused him to die - it put me off petrol for a while. To this day I still don't know whether it's true or not.

jorge

i used to believe that when you died you would come back as an animal because i saw the film 'fluke'

Roxy

my mom used to say circling people will kill them.and i believed.

chAse

I BELIEVED WHEN I WAS YOUNG, WHEN A BABY WAS BORN SOMEONE OLDER HAD TO DIE.

DENIS

Used to believe that my family members went to a different country, instead of acknowledging they had passed.

Well thank the parents for that one

Soulstealer