When I had to ride on escalators when I was little I would always get really nervous near the top or bottom. My big brother told me that little kids had gotten sucked down the grates and they would try to grab your ankles and make you live down there with them.
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- I used to belive that zombie hands would burst trough the floor and grab my ankles.Anon
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- I used to believe that people were buried in "grates".— Grate Job
- i used to believe escalators would eat me.Anon
- My dad once told me when i was about 7 or 8 that if i watched too much t.v., i would be sucked into the tv.Anon
- someone told me that if u go to the bathroom on the toielt you would get sucked inn..— terrified child