when my mum was little, there was a water tower near her house (it has been since demolished) but she thought that when people died their dead bodies would be somehow transported into the water tower and float around in there, and at night, witches would fly out of it.
A childhood belief about water towers

others believed things like this
- 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 humpty dumpty lived in our towns water towerAnon
- I used to believe the large metal structure in Paris, France, I thought it was the "Eye Full Tower"— Janet
- I used to believe that Jesus lived in the tower of the churchAnon
- I used to wonder why they didn't fix the Leaning Tower Of Pisa. Weren't they embarrassed that it was crooked?— Bootlebat