people

When watching movies or TV shows, I used to believe that when they 'found a body in the park', there was never a head attached.

Lorenza

When I was young, I thought when you reached the age of 50, you had lived half of your life and had 50 more years to go. I'm now 46 and ...........

Penny

I used to believe that everyone died on thier birthday.

S.D.W.

I used to believe,and till this day can't prove it,that the reason people die is because everyone is born to have only a certain amount of heartbeats and once you reach the amont you have,something happens,then you die....I think I was like 5 or 6 yrs old.

Donna

When I was very small I thought that people only died when they were very old and then in their sleep. I'd stay overnight at my grandmother's house in the bed where she and my grandfather used to sleep, and I used to lie awake all night imagining her waking up and trying to revive him (in the place where I lay, too). Only years later did I understand that my grandfather had been sick and died in a hospital (two years before I was born).

queeneve

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

until the age of 12, i used to believe that dead bodies come alive at night after everybody has slept.so i was afraid to go out at night after 9.00pm.

sgl

I used to believe that if you walked directly over someone's grave, they would haunt you forever.

jonee

That forked lightning was gods way of tellinbg my great uncle mort to shut up - it struck and killed him at the age of 81

Kate B

When I was 2 years old my Grandmother died. I then would always ask my father.why did grandma die? He would tell me because grandma did not eat her vegetables. (I hated veg's). So from then on I would always try to eat my vegetables because I was scared that I would die.

jennifer

When ever my family would go to the graveyard to visit already departed family I would never get out of the car for fear that the buried people ( not just my family) would reach up and grab around your ankles and pull you in. To this day I still try to walk around the direct spot of burial.

Tallulah

i was always scared that when i saw the dead person in their cascet at the funeral, they were going to smile at me , but no one else could see the person, just me!

stephanie

I used to believe that everytime a balloon was released , it meant that a child had recently died.

Samantha

I used to believe that people were never shot in the back so I always slept on my stomach to protect myself from murdering invaders in the night.

Jane Weber

When I was about 4 years old, one of my classmates asked our preschool teacher about her parents. She told us that her parents had died, so they were in a cemetary. She said that sometimes she would go and visit them in the cemetary. I only had the vaguest idea of what happened when people died, so somehow I got the notion that my teachers' parents were just...stored...in glass coffins, so that when she went to visit them in the cemetary she could literally see their dead bodies (perfectly preserved, of course). Years later, watching Snow White again as an adult, I realized that I must have gotten this notion from Snow White and her glass coffin.

Melinda