When I was about 4 or 5, my older cousin had told me that snakes come out of the pool filters. To this day I'm still kinda creeped out about that.
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
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- When I was little, my dad told me that if you pee in the pool the water will turn purpleAnon