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

I thought that ice was formed by snow falling down on the water. I tried to make ice that way myself, but it didn't work. Good thing it didn't freeze hard enough to prove me right...

Jos

I used to believe that there were porta pottys under the ocean for the fish to use. I thought they waited in line and when it was thier turn, they would swim in and swim out.

Ambo

When I was in grade 2 I was at Nanaimo B.C with my family. I was looking off the dock into the ocean and saw a HUGE bath plug at the bottom of the ocean. I told eveyerone afterwards that i had seen the plug to the ocean, and that if it was pulled the ocean water would get drained. I still think that if you pull that thing, there will no longer be a pacific ocean. Im 15 now.

Ocean Plug