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As a kid I would always see those campers that had a ladder that ran up the back to the top and I thought it had a pool up there.
janet
Up until I was in 3rd grade I believed my bathing cap is what kept me afloat in the swimming pool!
My brother told me when I was seven that at the bottom of our swimming pool, where the filter cap was, that an invisible laser beam came out of it, aiming straight up. If you broke the beam, the bottom of the pool would open up and a shark would swim out. Whenever I went off the diving board I always jumped to the side to avoid the beam. I still do it to this day, without thinking about it.
Jill
i use to think school was a swimming pool with a bunch of old ladys swimming around.
I didn't know where else to put this one, but it was in my grandparents swimming pool I always thought there was some sort of bubble monster that would come get me if I was alone in the pool. I was a very good swimmer and loved to swim, but I could never stay in alone.
Jeska
I used to believe that beyond the floating markers in a swimming pool or a lake, that lined off deeper ends of the water, that there were sharks there and i was terrified to go past them for years.
phayd2dark
When I was little my uncle told me all about the glass shark that lives in swimming pool drains. He said because it was made of glass, you couldn't see it except as shifts in the current/pool lights. Of course, wind on the water causes these shifts as well. Thanks, Unc.
Sappho413
I used to love watching National Geographic documentaries when I was little. And my dad couldn't swim. So one day, he made me watch Jaws, explaining that it was a documentary of what happens when humans get into deep water, being of course, the shark's environment.
I quickly became very wary and hesitant to swim in the sea... but then I discovered swimming pools. His solution was to tell me that all the pools in the world were interconnected by underground channels that lead out to sea, and Jaws could find me in any pool any where at any time if it wanted to.
Since then I don't swim alone in pool or sea, and I am paranoid about shark feeding times and anything that may attract a shark to me. But i still love to swim.
When I was little, I used to believe that if you got closer to a pool duct, it will suck you by the hair and you'll drown in the bottom of the swimming pool.
They told that one little girl died this way, so I was terrified of going to the bottom and find the dead girl without a bunch of it's hair... Brrrrrr!!!!
Mônica
when I was young I used to believe that there were sharks into the swimming pool and that they were going to eat me!!!!!So I wanted to swimm only with someone but not on my own
ali 4
When I was 10 or so I saw the movie Jaws. I believed that he could some how transfer from water to water, such as the ocean, to my bath tub, to my pool or even a puddle(specially the big one at the end of my drive way). So when I went swimming, (some how) I saw Jaws and would flip out and literally almost drown myself. I honestly believed that I was being eatten alive in my shark infested pool.
Oh those silly years of giving my parents heart attacks with my over active imagination.
Baby
when I was younger I thought that Jaws was going to pop out of my three foot swimming pool and eat me the reason I got this belief was because I saw Jaws right before we set up the pool
Bryce
I used to believe that if you swam in a pool when you had your menstrual cycle and leaked you would go into shock and possibly die.
Mensus
I used to beleive that the the place Liverpool was a swimming pool full of livers (i.e. animals livers, which you may cook and eat). I was horrified when my Grandad said he was going to Liverpool, I didn't want him in a swimming pool was all those livers!
I used to think that El Dorados were carpools. I would get so jealous whenever one drove by.
You know those cartoons where people are in a swimming pool and there is a shark behind some bars.When i went to a new pool i always had to check if they had a shark or not.
Shark
I used to believe that in the deep end of one of our town's pools, there was a huge sea serpent that would kill you if you touched it. I never knew for sure, because it was the kind of pool that is designed to look like a lake, you know, with murky water and sand on the bottom. So one day, I decided to see if I could find it. I jumped off the dock in the middle of the deep end and swam straight down. Now, I was about 7 years old, and the pool was 18 feet deep, so once I got pretty far down, I was not thinking clearly. I had my hands stretched out, and my hand brushed something. I screamed while I was under the water, and swam as fast as I could (not very fast) to the surface. I was convinced that the monster was chasing me. So I burst to the surface and got on the dock, breathing heavily, as I'd almost lost conciousness by that point. I now know that I'd touched the bottom, but I was too scared to ever go in that pool again.
Anonymous
When I was little there was a pool store nearby that had an actual pool in the front, and mirrors on the building so that the pool reflected out to the road, and I thought there was a sideways pool, and I used to wonder how they kept the water in. Finally one day I decided they had glass over the side. I only figured it out a while ago
When i learned about evaporation (i was about 6) I thought, why not put a humongous swimming pool in the yard so that it would evaporate and makes rain :)
I used to believe car pooling was where a car had a pool in the back
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