When I was young I used to believe that thee white foam on crashing waves was actually the white manes of unicorns.

Lindsay

i used to believe that salt in the ocean got deposited there by humans. and i pictured scuba divers shaking salt shakers under the sea.

JudicoBass

I used to believe that there was a giant toad under the sea, and when it breathed in, the tide would go out, and when it breathed out the tide would come in. This toad was known as the "undertoad", and if you went swimming when it was breathing in, it might swallow you.

Maia

When I was little my brother gave me a scientific explanation for why ocean water was salty. He told me that kids on the beach would throw sand in the water, which would disolve and become salt. I believed this for a long time.

Salt Water Genius

As a small child I was terribly worried that a polar explorer would drop a match, melt the ice-cap and drown everybody

Natalie

I used to believe the whitewash on waves was actually whale pee.

Tessica

i used to beleive that the foam in river estuarys and in the sea were dead mermaids, this is what i was told when i was younger by my parents

Laura

I always believed the tide came in at night, and went out again in the morning so that there'd be room for people to lie on the beach during the day.

Katie Watie

I used to believe that the whit foam on the waves in the sea was old mermaid hair! cccccrazy, I thought everyone thought that!

Steff!

After having "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (sequel to the lion the witch and the wardrobe) read to me I was terrified by the magical pool which turned anything that touched it to gold. For about a year I had to remind myself that if the water in my shower was like this it would have turned the shower head gold on the way. While this helped, I was never entirely sure whether or not this would stop the flow of water before it could hit me, and I never liked taking both eyes off the shower head at once.

Mahoney

I used to think that all rivers ran from north to south, i.e. from the top of the
map to the bottom. It seemed natural. I also got very excited when I first saw
a complete map of North America. When I saw "Newfoundland" I though it
was soooo neat that they were still discovering unknown places--and so
close to the U.S., too!

Monique

I believed that "they" switched the ocean waves off at night. When I was about 4, we were on holiday at the sea and one evening, after dark, we were driving along the beach road, when to my surprise I saw the waves were still coming in. I asked my mother at what time they were switched off.

Anna

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

Caitlin

i remember telling my mother one day when we were swimming in a lake that i thought it was so cool how water goes through you. lol she explained to me that it actually goes AROUND you. i was sorta bummed, i thought it was washing me inside and out. lol

ferri

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

mikita Jones

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

When I was about 5 or 6 I asked my mom why was the sky blue, she told me it was because the sea would reflect on it, I belived it until I was like 11!

L.J.

I grew up right by the ocean, but refused to learn to swim because the water was green. My logic was as follows:

Water is blue.
Wee is yellow.
Blue + yellow = green.

I was convinced the ocean was green from all the people weeing in it!

Meg

I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.

David

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