So many seafoam stories! My mom told me seafoam was the result of dead, decomposed mermaids. I was completely horrified and grossed out, and my brothers tortured me over it for years.
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "DEAD END: signs meaned it was the end of the world and you would fall off completely— Kristin
- Im 16 but i still like to think mermaids and faries are real!— Capri
- I used to belief that mermaids lived in underground drains. Anon
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- i told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon