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I thought a tidal wave was acutualy a title wave because if the wave was big enough it had its own title!
Nate
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The region I live in has a river and a beer named after it. This river is very fast flowing and dangerous and as a kid I was always told I was never to swim in it or drink the water (for my own safety.) I always thought it was because the brown river water was actually the beer of the same name and they use to bottle the river 'beer' and if I swam or drank it I'd get drunk and contaminate the beer.
Kaity
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When I was little, I had a debilitating fear of sharks, so whenever I would go to the beach, I would sit on the shore and refuse to go in the water with the other kids. To fix this, my parents told me that every beach has a net around it to keep the sharks out, but fish and dolphins could get through. I believed this about all beaches until I was about 18 years old. How they explained it made a lot of sense...
E
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When we would go to the beach we used to play in the waves. my brother told me they were whales. and i got so freaked out every time a wave came, i jumped as high as i could, not wanting to hurt the whales. boy , it was hard to keep up sometimes.
Casey
I used to believe that gas bubbles in swamps came from turtles breathing underwater. I didn't find out until high school that my mom had made it up.
Taylor
One time my dad was holding me while standing in creek water. I looked over at my mom and of course I could only see her upper body since the rest was underwater- freaked out n thought her legs were gone!!!
Renee
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At the ocean's horizon there was a giant waterfall.
Stephanie
When I was a kid living on the west coast I asked my dad how the tides happened. He said, when people in Asia go to the beach and get in the water, it's high tide here. When they get out, it's low tide.
Nick
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I believed that the yellowish foam by the ocean was dolphin pee because my dad told me
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I used to believe that there was an off switch to the ocean so that it could go to sleep at night.
I used to think that the daytime sky was the sea seen from above, and that one day would see
land from the other side of the clouds.
Daniel Villarroel
My grandma used to tell me that if you hold a seashell to your ear you can hear the ocean. I thought it made sense that the ocean sound could be there since I believed this up until I was 23 years old!
A college guy went around telling people if you peed in the pool or drank the water your hair would turn green. I misunderstood this as all water. One day I had to pee and was in the ocean at the time so I just went. When I realized what I had just done I kept looking in the mirror all day expecting see my hair turning green. I told my mother and she told me not to worry, that everything pees in the ocean
Kimberlee
We lived near a lake when I was a boy. My older brothers, who all swam well, told my younger brother and me that there was a sandbar in the middle of the lake, and that it was where all the snapping turtles lived. They said if I ever tried to swim across the lake and tried to stand up on the sandbar, or even let my kicking feet get near the bottom, the snapping turtles would bite onto me, would never let go, and I would drown.
A few years later, when I finally figured I was strong enough to swim across the lake, I nearly panicked when I got tired near the middle. I'm so glad I learned the elementary backstroke in the Scouts! I wouldn't let myself stop, made it all the way across, and all the way back.
To this day, I still have a irrational fear (though one I can get past) of being bitten by a snapping turtle when I'm wading or swimming in lakes and rivers (and I'm 39)!
Andrew
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When I was about 5-6 years old and I heard my mom say that there was a drought and that we had to be careful with our water usage. I thought she meant that it was so dry outside that since we had water inside..I figured that I'd be helpful and make a few trips outside by taking a cup of water and pouring it on the street curbside and watch it go down to the storm drain. Well, after a few times of seeing me running back and forth she finally stops me and asks..''What on earth are you doing??'' I told her that I just wanted to help out by taking water outside to help get rid of the drought!! She laughed at me and explained the whole thing about the drought to me... Well??!! I was a kid..LOL!!
STACIEBABY
I used to believe that sharks could appear in any water that was deep enough, like the shower, bath, or swimming pool.
Kate
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When I was little me and my twin brother used to think people would drive big trucks into the ocean and poor salt in the ocean.
Temple and Jack
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When I was on holiday with my parents once, we saw a flooded quarry. I asked why nobody was swimming in it and my mother told me it was too deep to swim in. For years I believed that there was some depth at which water became too deep to swim in and you would simply sink to the bottom. Even now I'm wary of swimming in deep lakes!
Sarah
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when i was 8 i read that all the water in the world is reused all the time, and I assumed that ocean water, which had touched giant squids, had been reused as the water in my shower.
I was terrified to take showers because the water had touched giant squids before, and washed myself in the sink (including my hair). My brother found out I had been washing my hair in the sink, and when I told him why he cracked up and teased me about it relentlessly until I got annoyed and took normal showers again.
Jennifer
Early years of my childhood, I believed that the clouds had a large trunk that sucked water from the sea and showered rains!
Shampiee
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