This is actually my dad's belief. When he was little there was a dry cleaners near his house that emitted alot of steam out of the back. He was convinced that this cleaners was pergatory and that they were cleaning souls in there.
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- I used to think that ghosts rode on vaccum cleanersAnon
- When I was younger, I would believe that vacuum cleaners were capable of sucking up humans.Anon
- When I was little I was afraid of vacum cleaners. I thought there was an old guy inside waiting to eat you.— Kittenz r kool
- when I was little i was scared of vacuum cleaners. I thought they would suck me inside of them.— Julie
- When I was 5 I was terrible scared of vacuum cleaners, because I thought it can suck me.— ahhhhhhhhh
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon