When I was a little girl, we went to a public pool that has fish in it. we drove a good 200 miles to go swim at this pool, and right as we get there my grandma tells all of us grandkids, "If you get in the water the little fishes will swim up your butt!" needless to say Nobody went swimming that day!
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- I used to believe that if you farted while swimming in the pool, it could propel you foward really fast.— Rick
- Up until I was in 3rd grade I believed my bathing cap is what kept me afloat in the swimming pool! Anon
- When I was a kid I used to think the "carpool lane" was an actual pool cars went swimming in— skeez
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2