We rarely went to the beach when I was small. Being by the ocean, I was afraid, that at any time, pirates in an old Spanish type galleon would sail by and harrass the beach goers.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I never used to take shower after going to the beach, because i thought that tans washed off right away.Anon
- I used to think that at night at the beach the government would turn off the waves.— Caitlin
- I used to believe that the foam that sometimes washes up on the beach was shark saliva... — Tiffany
- When I was eight, I loved Madonna's "Papadompe Beach." Didn't get why she was in trouble, though....— tncatboy
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- I believed everytime the toilet flushed a wave broke on a beach— Jenelle