people

I used to beleive that to die you had eat a bag of KFC chicken wings and grab a fishes tail!! Put me off KFC for life!!

Lucrecia

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 just a little girl and I didnt have siblings yet, I had to play by myself alot of the time. To this day I still wonder why I even played this, but I would pretend that I was dead. And everytime I would die, i would lay down, legs and arms sprawled out, w/ my tounge out. I dont know why, but when I was a little kid, I thought that when you died, your tounge was out. Later I learned that this wasnt the truth and i felt totally stupid!

Jess

I used to believe that you had to have your eyes closed and your tongue sticking out for you to be dead!

pinkgreencrazy

When i was little, i used to believe that when you die, you go to gad and tell him what you wnat to be, i thought my grandad was a tree!! I aleways wanted to be a butterfly.

SoPh xXxX

one day when i was quite young i was helping my mum set up a party for work, you know, decorations, balloons etc. i tried blowing a balloon up, and because you have to stretch them to make it easier, i couldnt do it, so my mum blew it up half way for me. but me being me wanted to do it all myself now, so i let the air out.
"well that was a waste of breath" she said, but i took it literally and thought we only had a certain amount of air to breath and we'd all eventually die when it ran out because of people who wasted it on whistles and sneezing etc.
weird eh?

Laura Lee

if a bell dosen't ring when you try ringing it you will die and to this day i have never rang a bell.

little loser

My grandmother, sane to this day, 90 years old and counting, told me as a child that my hand would wag above my grave if I hit my mother. To the best of my knowledge, I never in my life hit my mother anyway - before or after my grans advice.However, it made me terrified to pass a cemetery, ( I had to look the other way) in case of skeletal greetings!

Anon

I used to believe that the streams left behind jets were people going to heaven.

kindofadork

i used to believe everybody died once they turned 100

mis-spent youth

I used to think that when people died and went to heaven they met up with everybody else who had ever died, thus i believed that my late grandad was friends with dead celebrities such as john lennon and tommy cooper, and i figured my grandad had a sort of claim-to-fame because of this.

mis-spent youth

When I was about 12 and my little cousin was 4, I told him that our grandma had died (meaning the grandma on his father's side). The only granda he new was his mother's mum, so he burst into tears, crying out: Grandma is dead!!!! I was well punished for scaring him! :S

Angie

I was born in the 70's, so you know those old 80's photographs where there was almost a shadow of just your face up in the corner, in addition to the full length shot of you over most of the paper. Well, my cousin told me that the shadow face was my twin sister who had died and I just didn't remember her. I CRIED and believed it until I asked my Mom about my twin sister, and she told me the truth.

Justine Bailey

As a child I used to believe that not so deep under the grave is just the underground cave when body lies, completly intact, and in regular suit, maybe a bit elegant and official. As I got learnt about coffins and the rest, I realized how "smart in other way" I was.

Ich bin ein Dummkopf

I used to believe the dead flew up to heaven.

Pierre, a French student in eighth grade

I used to believe that the movies used convicts in scenes where people died, especially in cowboy and indian type movies. I figured they were expendible because they were in prison and nobody cared about them. I learned later about stuntmen and blanks and special effects.

Jacki