Outside the window, in the settling dark, the raw magnetism of human tragedy seemed to be sucking people toward Vatican City.

She can suck people inside the cask, which she uses to turn them into pickles for sale to creatures in other dimensions.

They are responsible for sucking people into swamps and lakes as well as killing the animals standing near the still waters.

Others think the suburban malls did it, each more grandiose than the one before, sucking stores and people from the city like so many vampires.

Whirlpools suck people down, don't they - and boats too.

That silence is a vacuum, and it's sucking people in.

A former skinhead who saw it told me he could "see how it sucked people up."

It sucks people into it, and all of a sudden you've got to have more people.

It was like the excitement was sucking people in.

"I wanted to suck people in and get them curious about celiac disease and living gluten free," she says.