I'm a big Wizard Of Oz fan. And when I was little I used to believe that if you were outside during a tornado (even though Dorothy was inside) it would suck you up into OZ.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- When i was little i used to believe that i could suck up a tornado in a vaccuum if it came in my house.Anon
- when I was little i was scared of vacuum cleaners. I thought they would suck me inside of them.— Julie
- I used to believe that when there was a tornado watch, you were supposed to sit down and watch the tornado.— Kay
- I used to think if a tornado sucked up a poisonous mushroom, it would die.— Will
- I used to be very fascinated by the weather and sometimes wished I could have a tornado for a best friend.— Will
- When I was a kid I thought that when tornado/twisters were what happened when God sneezed.— Not In Kansas Anymore