people

when i was little i used to think that since everyone said heaven was in the sky and hell was in the ground, when people were dead and burried they went to hell and the ones that werent burried went up to heaven.

Anon

You know how when it's sunny and blue skies but there are those white clouds in the sky? And it looks like there's a beam coming down from it? Well I used to believe that those beams were beaming someone who just recently died, up to heaven. I guess I still like to think that.

Kim

When I was little, I always lifted my feet off the floor of the car when we passed a graveyard. Someone had told me once if I didn't do this the souls of the dead would latch onto my feet and pull my soul out from my body. I did this up until I was 15 and I was learning to drive... I kept my feet on the pedals but I was sure tempted to lift them off.

May

when i was little i used to think that when a man came and tapped you on the shoulder it was your time. i thought that you couldent cheat death. now im 16 and i still believe you cannot cheat death.

urworstnightmare1988

When I was a kid I was always afraid of dying in a car accident. I noticed in movies and such that when people died, their eyes would close. So I thought that meant if I "died" with my eyes already closed, they would just open and I'd live. So whenever our car stopped short or slip on wet roads (etc.) I would clench my eyes shut thinking that would protect me. I didn't realize that was wrong until I saw a bad horror movie in which people died and their eyes actually stayed open.

Enrico

my dad said to me once that if I swallowed toothpast one day I would die! I believed it till I was 12!!!

Floobloom

when i was a kid i thought that in films when people died they were only going to sleep and used 2 ask my mom why were the people going 2 sleep when they were acting when i grew older i couldn't belive i could think that i couldn't stop thinkin about it for days!

dumbo

when i was little, i was at my great grandmothers house spending the night. i had asked her the night before if i could have a slice of grapefruit in the fridge for dessert, but she said no, it was for my great grandpa's breakfast.

the next morning he collapsed while eating it, and my mother later told me he died bc the grapefruit had torn through his throat and went floating around his body until it got to his heart and clogged it up.

i didnt realize until a few years ago though that he actually had died from a heart attack that had nothing to do with the grapefruit.

Anon

When I was about 8, I was afraid of the year 2000 thinking the world would end and I would never be able to graduate or get married, etc., I remember telling my family about this fear but nothing they ever said helped me. I didn't get over it until one of my friends told me that I shouldn't worry b/c God was still making babies and that when he stopped making babies, that's when the world would end. I remember the comfort I felt whenever I saw a pregnant woman.

Christina

When I was in 1st grade I remeber hearing my mother saying my pre-school teacher went to heaven, by that I thought that she took a plane and flew to heaven , couple of weeks later I asked "Is she back from her trip yet?"

Lindsay

When I was about 7 years old, I remember when Elvis died, then later that week I heard on the car radio that another public figure had died. I then asked my mom, "How come more and more people are dying", She was patient and explained to me that it happens at the end of someones life and that it was normal and I was just becoming more aware of it. Looking at it now, that was pretty funny and I just wonder how my Mom didnt burst out into laughter. the patience of mothers!

T.I.

I swear I used to think that the mateneince shed in cemetaries were actually the cremetorium. I have no idea where this idea came from, but I was completely convinced.

Laura