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When I was young, I used to believe that all public toilets were dangerous because a detached mummy's hand would rise and pull me down the bowl, thanks to my nose-digging yet ironically germophobic aunt. Surprisingly enough, most of the time, the worry was not about dying in the toilet bowl, it was about getting grabbed by the bare butt and then getting poo and pee all myself as I died.

I'm fifteen now, and I still freak out when I have to enter an excessively dark public toilet.

Liz

i used to be scared of overflowing the toilet and using the plunger.

Anon

When I was about 4, I was afraid of toilets in public restrooms; the kind that work on water pressure instead of gravity, since they are so much louder. I associated them with showers, which were also scary. I had this idea that if you flushed one of those monsters, a giant collander would slide up over the bowl and turn it into a shower. You would not want to be in the room when that happened!

Later, when I was 10, my shrink asked me about my childhood fears, and I told him about the toilet fear. He made up a weird theory, which he insisted was fact. Once, he said, I had seen my mother naked, and noticed she didn't have a penis. Logically, this must have been because she accidentally flushed it down a toilet. Hence, my fear of toilets. (I rolled my eyes so hard I nearly sprained them.)

Anon

When I was little I thought when i flushed the toilet if i didn't put the lid down before the water came back up the toilet would eat me, I also thought the toilet could talk.

a person

When I was 3 I accidentally saw a part of "Little Shop of Horrors" it was the part where the plant ate this guy (dont really remember) I used to thing that a plant would come up out of the toilet and eat me.

Anon

i used to belief that when you go to toliet in the midnight,an ugly hand from commode will pull you down!

chocolate

I believed that there were monsters in the shower drain and the toilet and if i flushed, they would come out and eat me.

Anon

you know how there is the boogy-man.......well i belived in the toilet-man (lol) and i had to open the door before i flushed so as soon as i flushed i had to run to the other toilet and the back so he had to follow me but was to slow (i repeted this 10 times) and mum said thats why i win the cross contry all the time !!!!!! heeheehee

toilet runner........

when i was younger i used to think that once you flush, you had to be out of the bathroom before the toilet filled up with water again. Otherwise the floor you disappear and you would fall down

johnny

I always believed that there were snake-like things in the toilet that would come out and bite you, so you had to poop whenever you sat on the toilet to appease their appettite. I was really scared of sitting on the toilet when I just had to pee when I was still to short to do it standing up, or when I didn't poop right away. I thought maybe they would be impatient and want their food right away, so they'd just end up biting me. I always pooped really quickly.

Linc, Austin, Texas

when I was younger, I used to think that snakes out slither out of the toilets and bite me when i had to go to the bathroom... i still think that.

Shaunna

I used to believe that when i flushed i had to be out of the bathroom.. if i wasnt then the toilet would swallow me whole. I used to believe from the age I was about 6 to 11 years old. Yet today it still crosses my mind everytime i flush the toilet...

General McOwns

I used to believe that there were aliens in the laundry that would come and get me when I flushed the toilet.

Anon

I used to believe that rats would come out of the toilet when it was flushed late at night so i would run back to my bedroom quickly and rush getting back into bed.

Diane D

I had to be back in bed before the toilet finished flushing, or a hand would come out, grab me and pull me down.

Anon

Before flushing the toilet when i was a kid, i used to open the door and get ready to run as soon as i had flushed it. For some reason i thought a gorilla was going to come out of the toilet, roaring at me. As i got older, i realised it wouldnt be able to get out of such a small space.

Jennifer

I used to believe that the toilets with the black seats would attack me when i sat down, but that the white ones were nice.

IM

I used to believe that when you flushed the toilet, you had to be out of the bathroom and have the door closed before the toilet was done flushing. If you didn't do this, a ghost would come out of the bathroom mirror and suck you in so it could eat you. This was retarded, but I believed it for some reason. Everytime I flushed, I jumped for my life out the door and ran like hell down the stairs(in case the door didn't close all the way) and washed my hands in the kitchen.

Toilet Ghost

that dracula lived in the sewer and at any moment he might rise up and bite my butt.

charlotte

As a child I believed that there was a witch who lived in the toilet bowl, and if I sat on it she would poke me in the butt with a needle. It can be terrible to be so gullible and the youngest of four children.

Kate