You can get sucked down the plughole

I had a morbid fear of being sucked down the plug-hole and would climb out of the bath tub with great haste after taking out the plug.

Peter I Walker

My mom used to tell me I had to get out of the bath before pulling the plug otherwise I'd get sucked down the plughole. I believed this until I was 9 ...

JigsWithoutWoodstock

That if I stayed in the bath to long i turned into a prawn (not prune) and I'd fall through the plughole, mum & dad had to force meinto bath for months

Anon

I used to belive a monster lived down the plughole in the bath and when you pulled the plug out he would grab you and drag you down the plughole and eat you so i'd jump out of the bath as quickly as possible or make someone else pull out the plug later....

MacKenzie

When I was aged probably three to six, i used to think that the noise when you take the plug out of the bath (that wooshing, shrieking sound as the water goes down) was the noise of ghosts and skeletons coming up the pipes to get me - I guess it let the water out, and let the ghosts in. I was terrified when my mum or dad would leave me alone in the bath and say "when you're done, just pull the plug out." I would get out of the water, kneel on the edge of the tub, yank the plug out as fast as I could and then sprint naked and screaming into my bedroom and hide until I heard all the water had gone down and the scary noise had stopped, so I could go back and get a towel.

I still really don't like that sucking, shrieking, wooshing noise when I take the plug out of the bath and try to get out of the bathroom before it ends!

anon

I used to think that if you take the plug out of the bath it will suck you into the bath

awesome kid

i used to believe that in the hole in bath lives monster who suckes out water out of it. I was afraid that this creature can suck out also me or catch my foot.

salmon

When I was little, I was scared of drain holes in the bath-tub. I thought I would get sucked down them and die.

vivin

I used to think that when your in the bathtub the drain sucks you up and so I would of backed up when the water was draining

Anon

I used to believe that if i still sat in the bathtub when my mother pulled the stopper out i could flow down like the water. it was a big fear for me!:D

helga

i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain

blake

When i was younger i used to believe that if you were still standing in the bath when you took out the plug that you would get sucked down the plug hole with the water. I still make sure that im out of the bath before i take out the plug.

Steph

When I was six, my friend told me that her aunt got her intestines sucked out by sitting on a bath tub drain while it was draining.

I thought of sitting on the drain to see if it was real; i chickened out.

Lola

I used to love taking baths as a child, and it would always take forever for my parents to get me out. Therefore, my dad made up a lie that once he began draining the water out of the tub, I would eventually be sucked in with it if I remained in the tub. He told me it had happened to my brother once before, and he ended up coming out of the sewer in our street. I cried after hearing this and for years after, I would get out of the bath and then drain it- I wasn't taking any risks.

Anon

When very small I used to love baths so much that I'd never want to get out. This annoyed my parents so they invented a monster called Tommy Splodger who lived down the plughole and would come and eat me if I stayed in the bath too long. They told me the gurgling of the water going down the plughole was the noise Tommy made. I became very afraid of baths.

Ben

I used to believe that if you pulled the plughole while you were in the bath, you would get sucked into it!

The Young Actor - age: 11

I used to believe that if I did'nt get out of the bath before the final trickles of water went down the plug hole, I would go down the plug whole too!! Actually the thought still lurks in the back of my mind every so often and Im 35!!!

budge

When I was little, I was afraid of the bathroom drain, I thought it would suck me down the hole.

Anon

I remember a song called splish splash by
Charlie Drake at the end he pulls out the plug
and is sucked down the plughole .my mum told
me that the same thing would happen to me if
I pulled the plug while I was still in the bath .it
terrified me I was only about 5 at the time
KENNY

Anon

I used to beleieve I was small enough to be caught up by bathtub drain and I used to run away when the drain was open.

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