When I was about five, my daddy told me that when I was a baby, we went to the ocean for vacation and a shark was chasing me around the water. He said that he then jumped in the ocean, onto the shark's back, and beat him up. Then the shark starts whimpering and goes down a waterfall. When he told me it wasn't true, I cried about it for a long time.
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- At the ocean's horizon there was a giant waterfall.— Stephanie
- When i was younger,I used to believe i could see a shark in a pool .Anon
- I thought the song "Hit me with your best shot" was "Hit me with your pet shark"Anon
- I used to believe that the foam that sometimes washes up on the beach was shark saliva... — Tiffany
- A friend believed that they used a tame shark during the filming of "Jaws".— Wendy