I used to believe, at night, sharks inhabited the dark recesses of the deep end of our pool. Even now, as an adult, I get a slight shiver across my skin as I swim to the deep end of the pool at night.
A childhood belief about swimming pools

others believed things like this
- i used to believe there were invisible sharks in the deep end of the pool, thanks to my older brother.— Melissa
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- i used to believe that pools had underwater doors that sharks were going to swim out of.— marky
- I used to believe that, in cities, if you dug deep enough in anyone's lawn, eventually you'd hit the concrete.— Kevin Fox
- When I was a kid I though facial hair on a man is what gave them the deep voice — Adrian Z.