water

When I was younger I used to believe many things. Things that you would stop you in your tracks and burst out laughing. One of my most popular ones just happen to the lake. I used to live in Kentucky and there was this huge lake (I thought it was huge atleast) but anyway I believed that their were sharks in the water. It would take hours for my poor mother to persuade get me to get in and by the time I was ready to get in it would be to late. I also believed that there were bodies at the bottom just waiting for ME to find their dissolved carcus. I still believe that there are bodies at the bottom of the lake but as for the sharks I know better. Just to let you know though...I'd rather stick with the pool.

JaMiE

At my school, when you went out to recess you would play on a large asphalt lot that had a drain at one end so that puddles wouldn't form on the play area when it rained. When I was in first grade my friend and I were absolutely convinced that this drain was the source of all the city's water supply. We had noticed that when it rained the water going down the drain usually had mud or leaves in it, or gasoline that had dripped from cars. We couldn't beleive that the mayor would let people drink this water! So my friend and I, feeling an obligation to our community, got together a bunch of kids to build a "dam" around the drain. We built it of rocks and twigs, and assumed that it would hold out all the water that had been sitting on the dirty asphalt while still letting in rainwater. When we went away to got more rocks some older kids came and stomped on our dam, letting all the water in (of course our little dam hadn't realy held out any water anyway). For days afterward we would not drink any tap water.

Anon

As a small child a thought the world was a large ball of water, with only a crust of land around it. I didn't understand why, if I stood near the edge of the sea or a river, the ground didn't cave in underneath me because it was too thin!

Joe

the sand whirls left by the tide going out were little worms and had to be carried i couldn't let my feet touch the sand at all

maria

i used to believe that people grounded up the deads' bones and what-not and put it in our tap water. Imagine when I was thirsty!

RL

I used to think that fountains were taps left running all day. Could never work out where all the water used to go to.

Anon

When i was young my Dad would warn my against swimmiing to far out to sea by telling my there were giant sea slugs that lived at the bottom of the ocean that would bite the legs of people who swam over them.

The worst part is that i beleived this until i was 18

Dave The Rave

When I was little, I asked my teacher if North and South America were connected or not. She said they used to not be, it was all water and then it connected. So then when I was swimming in the lake, I thought that all of a sudden it would connect to the other side. So after that I rarely swam in our lake!

Sea Starra

I used to beleave that if I waled over a patch of ice and it cracke, it would break and I would fall into another dimension.

Anon

i believed that if i stayed in water too long i would turn into a raisin. my grandparents would always say that too and i beleived them.

Wayne

A very early misconception, I thought the ocean floor was made of some kind of plastic grating I could fall through, which needless to say, kept me out of the ocean... I'm not sure where I got that from but I do have older brothers

mike

When i was little, the town pool was called the 'Old Mill' although i thought it was the Old Milk and i used to think that everyones wasted milk was put into that pool.

Liz

Whenever I was in a boat and we would hit waves and the boat would bounce, I thought that we were hitting the backs of fish.

Anon

That an undertow was a giant toe under the water that grabbed people and pulled them under.

mikita Jones

when i was around 3 or 4 i belived that the sea had a large plug like a bath and it was draind every night

James Cameron

Every year when I was young my family would go on vacation to a lake. When out on a row boat fishing with my brothers, I would think you could catch more fish if the lake was half empty. I would use a pail and scoop water from one side of boat and dump it on the other. Hence emptying one side of the lake.

John

I used to think that at night at the beach the government would turn off the waves.

Caitlin

I used to believe there was a creature that lived under the ocean called the "Under Toad." Whenever we drove by the beach, I'd look out the car window, and if I saw something sticking up out of the water, I knew it was the "Under Toad" lurking (I now realize it was probably seaweed). I think I developed this belief when I was about 4 years old and fell into a deep hole at the seashore. I probably would have drowned if it hadn't been for a kindly stranger who rescued me, because my mom was too far up on the beach to get to me in time!

Anon