When I was younger, I lived pretty close to a water tower, so I thought frequently about how the water got into the water tower. I finally came to the conclusion that the top came off to let the rain water in.
There was a door at the bottom of the water tower, and I thought that when you opened the door, water would come rushing out but if you did get in, you would float to the top and get stuck untill they opened the top during a rainstorm!
A childhood belief about water towers

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that humpty dumpty lived in our towns water towerAnon
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj
- i used to think the water tower was filled with milk— jen
- ***I used to believe that water towers was a place that someone lived and they controlled the water.— C H R I S T E N
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin