I was told by a Carowinds employee when I was a kid that the waves in their wave pool were created by elephants underneath it. They would feed them peanuts and they would stomp their feet which created the waves.
A childhood belief about swimming pools

others believed things like this
- I used to believe the whitewash on waves was actually whale pee.— Tessica
- I used to believe that peanuts were a daily must to strengthen the memory like elephants — Qb Cheese
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- I used to think that at night at the beach the government would turn off the waves.— Caitlin
- I used to believe that the waves in the ocean were made from whales swimming by...— Tina
- Waves are whales and sharks moving up and down under the waterAnon