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I believed there was something in the toilet, but it could only come up when you flushed, so I came up with a strategy for not letting it out. After you finish going potty, you had to flush the toilet, slam the lid, hit the lights, close the door, and run down the hallway to the kitchen, all while holding your breath. There you could safely wash your hands with out the moster getting you.

Mary

When I was little I had this fear of snakes living in the sewer. So I thought they could swim up into the toilet and bite you while you were sitting on it. So I always squatted above the toilet. I would never directly sit on the toilet seat.

Nicky

I used to believe that when you didnt look down while you were pooping, Michael Jackson's head waould appear in the toilet underneath you.

NedimFearsWackoJacko

when i was younger i used to think that before you went to bed you had to put the toilet seat down other wise ghosts would come up out of the toilet and take you down the toilet with the them to live in the sewer and i still put the toilet seat down before i go tobed and im 23

toilet freak scardy cat

I always used to think when i was younger that if I flushed the toilet in the middle of the night that everyone would wake up and yell at me.then i learned about carpet stopping sound.But im still scared every time i go in the night in a bathroom that has no form of carpets.

Midnight Alarm Clock

I used to think that there were dragons or ghosts in the toilet who would get me if i wasn't careful. Then when my sister accidentally pulled off our lizard's tail, my dad flushed it down the toilet, so I never used that toilet because i believed it might come out of the drain, attach itself to my flesh and drain the life out of me.

Redrum4213

i saw a horror film once when i was little, it was something to do with someone coming out of the plumping. and there was a bit where someone came out of the toilet, and they had that wierd scary look about them. so i was terrified of going to the toilet (i still went though). But everytime i flushed the toilet i'd run out of the bathroom quickly.

Kingly Hostang

I've always had this fear that there was a hand living in every toilet, and that whenever you were using it, it would come up and pull you down, taking your hands for the next toilet. I'm 14 now and still check all toilets before and during.

The Hand

When i was little i was afraid of going into public toilets.My ultimate fear was falling into the toilet and being flushed...I still can't use public toilets!

Cora

when i was little, my grandmother always told me that snakes could climb up the pipes to the toilet and bite me. i was always cautious when using the bathroom and i would do it as quickly as i could and i would jump up off of the toilet to make sure that there wasnt a snake in the it.

Kelsey

When I was little I was not the kind of kid who asked their parents every question imaginable, I would figure out life's questions by myself. One of these questions was what the noise the toliet made when it flushed.

I figured that an evil witch and some goblins lived in the toilet. I believed that whenever the toilet was flushed that I had to shut the lid, turn out the light, run out of the bathroom, and slam the door shut all before the toilet stopped flushing. I thought that if I didn't then the evil witch would send her goblins to get me and they would cook me for dinner.

I don't know why I thought this but it scared the hell out of me for years.

Ayame

When I was camping with girl scouts we always had a list of things to clean at camp (dishes,ect). One of the duties was to clean the toilets (which are actually out houses). The older members would tell us that if you were put on duty of cleaning the toilets on the last day, they would tie a rope to your stomache, and lower you in with a paint scraper. You would have to scrape off the sides of the out house and put everything into a bucket. Then dump the 'waste' by a tree to help it grow faster. EEW, disgusting, I know! I was so terrified the first time I heard this, I refused to go to the bathroom the whole weekend. That way if I had to clean the toilet, I could say "I never used the toilet, make someone else do it."

Andrea

I was DEATHLY afraid of public toilets. I wouldn't use one even if I was about to poop my pants. I kept imagining that, when I went to flush, the toilet would burst and send up a litteral column of water (and also....well, do I really want to go there?)straight up to the ceiling at typhoon speeds, and it would flood the bathroom and I'd drown. (I have a fear of water/drowning in the first place.) Never mind that the bathrooms aren't watertight, never mind that water pressure (strangely, I knew all about water pressure even though I was quite young at the time) in sewage lines would never grow that large, never mind that had never heard about that happening before, never mind that other people used them just fine, I was convinced that public toilets were death traps. If I absolutely had to use one, I would flush and then run like crazy out the bathroom door. Needless to say, I got some strange looks at that.

Looking back, I think it has something to do with the loud flushing, a Flying Rhino Junior High cartoon episode (Where, you guessed it, a toilet explodes exactly like that, minus the...well, stuff), and the ability to hear the rushing water throughout the walls in the piping. I'm 13 and still am very reluctant to use a public toilet.

Daniel Muir

when i was young i would strategically hover above the toilet seat while using the loo (so as not to get sucked down by the 'toilet monster') also when i flushed the loo i would leg-it out of the bathroom when flushing the loo so as not to get sucked into the toilet and would wait until the gurgling stopped before i washed my hands

luke

ok this was actually my brother that did this but... when we were younger we watched the freddy crouger movies alot (i.e nightmare on Elm st. and so on..) and he would go to the bathroom and anytime he'd go pee he wouldnt flush the toilet when he was done but he'd go and open the door and run back to the toilet and flush it really fast and then run out of the bathroom shutting the light off behind him... he was afraid that freddy was gunna come out of the toilet when he flushed it and snatch his man parts off! lol but freddy couldnt come up if he pooped only pee cuz he didnt like the smell of the poop! wat and idiot!

luella

I used to think when i was in pre-k that there was a monster named Warda that lived in the toilets and that he would try to pull me down if i tried to poop. Obvioulsy i tried to avoid this fate, so i would often go days without pooping.

jacob

I used to squat over the toilet because I thought a rat would crawl up from the sewage and bite my but and I would get rabies.

Anon

When I was 5, my family moved to Paris, France for a year. In Paris, there are these coin-operated porto-potties on the sidewalk (I don't remember the specifics of where or how many). My mom told me something about having to be finished in under a few minutes, but I interpreted it as that if we didn't use them in under a minute, the toilet would self-clean (hot water and soap would spray out of the walls) and we'd be killed. But that doesn't really make sense now...

Ariel

When I was little, I used to think that there were pirates in the toilet (don't ask me why!). I was so scared that when I went to the toilet, I would allways pretend to be a pirate so that the pirates wouldn't eat me. I kept bringing my plastic sword & eyepatch to the toilet with me until I was about five!!!

psyco kid

I used to believe that in the toilet lives a toilet god.. haha thats why i never ever dared to dirty the toilet when i was young, for fear that i may get punished for doing sooo... hahahaha!!!

the toilet scarry cat