people

I used to believe there was a magical man who created everything in the universe, and could see everything you do, and when you died you would go spend eternity on a cloud with him and everyone that ever died before you.

lied to by parents

When my brother was little, our grandparents died in a car crash, and he was maybe 3. We all explained that they were up in heaven with God and the angels. He started to wave at airplanes after that, and we finally found out he thought our grandparents were riding on airplanes, that's wat happened when you died.

KM

I used to believe that colourful oil puddles on the road were squashed children and therefore always had to hold an adults hand when crossing.

diz

I used to believe cemeteries were "summerteries". In Maine, if a person died in the winter, the body was kept in a vault until the earth had thawed enough for burial - summer, or as pronounced in Maine, summah. We only went to the cemetery in the summer.

Lynne Murray Magee

when I was a kid I used to believe that the sausage factory used children

lucas

this wasn't mine, but my uncle's.

in the 50's when he, the first-born of the family, was about 5 years old, my grandparents hired
a painter to paint a picture of him. because all people in the portraits he had seen during his short life were
already dead, he thought that being painted meant always getting killed. if I remember correctly he
had the most creepiest thought that portraits in general were made OUT OF PEOPLE.
when the day of the artist's arrival came closer, my lil' uncle became more and more depressed.
my grandparents were naturally excited about this whole project and counted days
as my uncle grew more and more anxious. finally, he burst into tears and
sobbed " please, mom and dad, I don't want to die...".
well, the things were sorted out and explained to him finally, the painting completed
and the dreaded portrait still hangs on his wall.

ingrid

When I will little I use to believe my mum would be around forever - she died when I was 13.

wn

I usd to believe that, all Americans were left handed and we all died when we reached our 100th birthday!

Greg Baron

I used to believe that if I cut the web of flesh between my thumb and forefinger that I would get Lockjaw (tetanus) and die.

"Tusitala"

I used to think that when you were dead, they could give you a pill to make you alive again. My brother and I used to play "hospital", and if one of us "died", the other would administer an "alive pill".

This was before I saw The Princess Bride, so you can imagine how hard I was giggling at the Miracle Max scene!

Athazagoraphobia

I used to believe that people can only faint once and if they fainted again, they'd actually die. So when i was about 8, my sister fainted on a car workshop because of sunstroke and i couldn't stop crying because i thought she was going to die the next time she fainted. When she woke up, i told her that "i'd take care of you so you won't die", she asked me what i meant and i told her. She laughed at me that she even forgotten about the heat and told me the real thing. I was in shock after she told me.

envster

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

i used to believe that if someone died they would go to heaven, put on pretty robes and turn back and become one of the angel statues in church

Ashlee

I was terrified of elevators because I thought that if I ever got stuck in one I would run out of air and suffocate. I would always take a few extra deep breaths before entering one so I'd have extra oxygen in reserve.

Me

I passed the Coroner's Court in Sheffield frequently, and regarded it with trepidation, since I thought that at an inquest the body of the deceased was in court, and that if I looked through the windows I might see a rotting corpse. I'm told that in the distant past this was actually so!

Ray Ward

I used to believe that souls were actually kites. & when people died, the kites would fly themselves up to heaven.

Dani

my nephew used to believe that when people died, they just needed new batteries.

p-daddy

When I was around 5 or 6, I remember telling everyone that since my grandma was dead, she was therefore allergic to being alive.

Katrina

I used to think that if you fell a very long distance and died, you would turn into blue gel. I don't remember the exact time of onset or when I finally saw the light, but I do remember being frightened about this steep hill near my house. I didn't want to fall down it and turn into blue gel!

Shannon

When I was in Kindergarten we were practicing a fire drill on the school bus. They put my whole class on the bus and shut all the doors. I thought they were really going to set the bus on fire and I freaked out because there was no adults on the bus to open the back door. I remember standing there in line screaming "Who's going to open the door!?" (I didn't know they could open it from the outside) I really thought if I we didn't all hurry and make it off the bus we would die. I ran off the bus and my teacher had to calm me down and assured me nothing bad was going to happen. So I got back on the bus after everyone else was done and went out the back and everyone clapped. I remember feeling so relieved that I wasn't going to have to fight for my life that day and I little silly realizing that it was so easy just to jump out the back.

Jessica