When I was a kid, my dad told me that if I didn't jump off of the escalator at the right moment, it would suck me in and kill me.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I didn't jump off the escalator in time I would be chopped up like mince.— Jodie
- I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- I used to believe that serial killers would jump out of cereal boxes and kill me...— Amanda
- I used to believe that if I didn't jump the white lines of the zebra crossing I would dieAnon
- My mom told me that if you suck your thumb, wourms would crawl up out of the ground and eat it up!— Kat
- I used to believe that Limabeans would kill you if you didn't eat them.
I flushed them down the toilet.— Lima