As a child I was afraid of elevators. I was afraid that if you were inside and the door closed with no buttons pushed, the elevator would either go somewhere out of the building, pulling near-fatal Gs, or just vanish taking you along with it.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- 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 a child I used to be afraid of clowns because they used to have very big shoes— LIZA
- i used to think there were little mini oompa loompas inside of me that pushed the poop out of my buttAnon
- I used to be afraid that E.T. was under my bed!— Mandie B.
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- I use to think elevators were alligators & cantalope was antelopes.Anon