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One of my cousins had bug spray at camp and told me that if i spray it more then 3 times on myself i would die in my sleep. she was doing this because she knew i already used a lot and didn't want me to touch it. i had already sprayed a lot more then 3 times. i tried my hardest not to sleep because i believed i would die. i was so scared! then i woke up the next morning and didn't die :)

Lisa

When I was a kid, I first heard the term Opus Posthumous at about the time I was also hearing about heaven, celestial choirs of angels, etc. So with kid logic, I assumed that when great composers died, they went to heaven, and in heaven one does what one loves best. Thus somehow they composed new music and sent it back to earth for the rest of us to enjoy. I was disappointed to learn that the term merely covered works discovered after the composer's death.

(this could be religion, languages or music - you decide)

peregrine

I used to think that when you died, you would be awake trapped in your coffin rotting for all eternity!

Trapped in the Coffin

i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died

samantha

When AIDS was first being discovered, there were slimming biscuits also called Aids. For a while, i believed that it had been discovered that these biscuits had turned out to cause fatal health problems and i was completely appalled at what i´d heard.

Interestingly, the name of these biscuits was changed soon afterwards.

Mark

I used to think they did an autopsy every time someone died regardless of how they actually died.

Marideth

I once asked my mum if they would still print what page the bingo numbers were on in the Sun newspapers front page, if the queen died.
I was convinced that the bingo numbers were so highly important that nothing would stop them being on the front page,
as evertime I saw the paper they were on it or so I thought.
Hope that makes sense!

CJ

When I was little I used to believe that those little storage beds that go in the back of a truck, was a coffin. I thought the trucks that had those storage things had dead people in them.

-Charissa-

when i was 4 i had a premonition that i would die of leukemia when i was 54 years old. i've never forgotten it. it used to scare me, but not anymore. i'm 48 now. six years until i die?

Anon

I used to believe that I killed my friend with words..We had a fight,and I told him I wished he would die.He got leukemia shortly after,and then died.I was sure I was to blame,and watched my words carefully.I still feel guilty though,now 35 years later...

Kris.

When I would watch a movie and someone got killed I thought they got killed in real life and couldn't understand why they wanted to participate in that movie

luckyyou

When I was litte, my mom and aunt told me that if it rained on the day of someones funeral, it meant they were going to heaven. I know that's not true, but still to this day I always hope it rains.

Ang

I used to believe that everyone died on thier birthday.

S.D.W.

I used to believe that when I saw a brilliant beam of sun poking through the clouds, a person had just died and was going to heaven. I don't know how this belief started, but it was confirmed for me once: I saw one of these scenes while returning from a trip to my grandmother's house, and found out when we got home that our neighbor (whom we were close with) had died of cancer. Even now (age 25) when I see a sunbeam like this, I get a little nervous.

Beam-o

I used to believe that when someone died thaey'd haunt me!(when I was 3)

Beefy

When I was about 10 I was told by two girls who were babysitting me as we walked though a cemetary that if I walked on a grave a chickenman would jump out of it and peck me to death. i totally belived it too and had nightmares.

Sammi

I used to believe the oldest person in the world was 214.

Imaginative_Kidd

I used to believe,after my uncle died, that if i wrote him a letter and put it under my pillow, he could read it maybe.

Pebdy's nephew

I was four when my grandmother died. My mom explained to me what death was and that grandma would not be coming back. So when someone asked about what happened to my grandmother not too long afterwards I explained to them that she was in prison, because I didn't understand that someone could go anywhere else for a long time and not come back.

Liz, who still misses her nana

I used to beleive that if you point at a graveyard, it would point back!!(whatever that meant)

scary ashley