water

I used to believe that all rivers ran south, or down. This just had to the truth because the rivers were on the big pull-down map hanging in our classroom and the fact that gravity makes water run down.

Anon

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

When I was younger, my brother told be that mud puddles were actually chocolate milk! I would drink the water by the cup fulls!

Anon

When I was younger I used to be scared to go swimming at my cabin because the waves made the water look like jello and I thought I would be sucked in and trapped.

Leslie

When I was probably 4, one of my dad's co-wrokers told me there were fish in the lake that liked biting toes Well later on some of my parents friends had said how a fish had deflated their pontoon by biting it. I didn't go near the water for a long long time.... to this day I can't be in a lake by myself!!

fish'll eat me!

I also believed that the ocean froze in the winter time; frozen waves, foam and all. I grew up in NJ and we would never go to the ocean to look at it in the winter time; I thought it was because it was too dangerous being frozen.

Maggie, NJ

As a kid I had heard that song 'there's a hole in the bottom of the ocean, there's a hole in the bottom of the sea.' I had also been read that 'Cinese Brothers' story about the boy who could swallow the whole ocean. So the two got linked in my mind.

After that, I thought if I went swimming I would get sucked into the hole. Even though we lived near the beach, I refused to even stick a toe in the water for years after that.

Anon and on

We (me and my brother) didn't realise that the ocean was salt water...until our first trip to the beach, when we both raced in, then raced out again, spitting and crying.

Anon

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

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

my dad would take me fishing at the coast and would tell me not to step in the foam that washed up on the shore because sailors used to pee over the side of ships and it would wash ashore

jacob

i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.

Beverly

When I was a kid, I thought that the ocean was salty because little men dumped a giant saltshaker into it every night when everyone was asleep.

bythesea

When I was about eight or nine, my grandfather took me to a marina. The sea was so flat that I didn't think it could possibly be water and wanted to walk on it to check. When Grandpa said no, I thought that you had to be older to legally check if something was water or not.

Anon

When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.

Salma

My grandfather told me that the foam at the edge of the ocean would suck you in if you got too close. Said a little boy was grabbed before his mom could reach him and was never found again. I believed it for the longest time and refused to go near the foam.

Barbara Duncan

Waves are whales and sharks moving up and down under the water

Anon

when i was a kid there was a island in my creek that only appeared when the water was down, but me and my friends thought it would ust rise from the depths every year. lol.

peggs

As a child I used to think that the sea was infinite.

Anon

a friend of mine used to believe that the tide went out during the day and
in at night. He still believed this at 18 until I told him better!!

Lynne