Personal Experiance (Score 1)

My family used to go to a medium sized lake in the U.S.(not sure of location) for our family reunion. On one of those trips we were on the shore of the lake digging in the sand and we found a white no eyed creature that looks extremely close to the same picture of the animal found in this achient ecosystem. We released it and 10 minutes later or so I was sitting on the sand underwater and was stung or bitten by the same thing we released. Am I just mistaken or is there something that lives in central U.S. that looks just like that white animal?- Happened 3 or 4 years ago when I was 10 or 11