When my cousin was about 3 or 4 years old, I was about 8. He lived in the same town as me, so he was always over at my house. We had a huge attic fan that blew air into the second story.... made a lot of noise..... one day me and my friend started to take my cousin upstairs to the attic, while he was walking up the stairs I turned the fan on. He asked what the noise was, we told him it was the "fan man" and if he came too close to it he would eat him and spit him out downstairs. My cousin ran out of the house and down the street... and he actually still believed that story for a while....