When I was little, people told me to watch out for the undertow when I was on the beach. I thought they said 'undertoad' so whenever I went to the beach I always got scared and thought that a giant toad lived in the ocean and would suck me underwater.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- That an undertow was a giant toe under the water that grabbed people and pulled them under.— mikita Jones
- 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