As far back as I can remember I have been afraid to be alone in a large bath tub or pool because I had this terrifing phobia that if I was alone in the bath or pool, then a shark/crocodile/snake would swim up the plug hole or out of the filter and eat me.
A childhood belief about swimming pools
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- 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
- I used to think that when I was in the bath I shark lived under the bath and that ig might come up and bite me— ------------
- I used to think that if you take the plug out of the bath it will suck you into the bath— awesome kid
- When i was younger,I used to believe i could see a shark in a pool .Anon