After my mother very sternly warned me never to detach the vacuum cleaner bag from the vacuum cleaner, I thought doing so would release the monster that lived inside.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- 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
- When I was younger, I would believe that vacuum cleaners were capable of sucking up humans.Anon
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- I used to think that "elbow grease" was an actual product of kitchen or surface cleaner.— Carrie