When I was young, my parents believed that if you turned the vacuum cleaner on when it was next to the TV, it "would suck the color out of the TV". I really think they believed this. Of course, being a kid, I never turned the vacuum on near the TV.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- 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
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- When I was younger, I would believe that vacuum cleaners were capable of sucking up humans.Anon
- when i was young i was told that if i played with or turned my belly button that my bum would fall off — lee hull