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I used to believe monsters lived in our toilet, among them the aliens from Alien, Chewbacca, and E.T. The only thing that made it okay for me to go to the bathroom was to believge that Glinda the Good Witch lived down there too to protect me.

Mandi

when I was 4 or 5 my sister told me that when you flush the toilet the gurgling noise was the boogeyman getting mad at you and was gonna eat you if you didnt get out before it stopped flushing he would get you. she ended up scaring herself (and me) and for around a year my parents would see us wash our hands, flush the toilet, and run like hell out of the bathroom

liam

i used to be scared a monster would get me at my weakest,on the toilet.
And i still am...*shudders*...

kiitycule

When I was little, I used to think that when you flushed the toilet, you were allowing the dead spirits to come after you. (The pets flushed down the toilet.) Every time I flushed, I would run out. And one day I tripped and started crying and screaming. When my grandma came and asked what was wrong, I told her, "The spirits are after me!"

They're comin 2 get me!

When I used to go the bathroom I was afraid to poop b/c I though a hand was going grab me and pull me in and when I flushed it I would cover my ears.

I don't know why.

Paul Bernacki

i used to believe that every time i flushed the toilet then something scary would pop out of it if i didnt leave the bathroom in time. so i would flush the toilet and storm out of the bathroom.

christen

I used to think that I would be sucked into the toilet. Mostly a fear of airplane toilets because those type run on suction. I figure ones at home were the same.

Bryan B.

When I was little my mom told me that if I sat on the toilet too long I would get hemeroids!

LINZ

I thought that when you sat on the toilet a snake would bite me.

J

When I was about 5 or 6 I believed that if you were not out of the bathroom before the toilet was coompletely done flushing, a bomb will go off and you would die.

Corinne

When I was little my older brother believed an evil hand lived in the wall behind the toilet. He was convinced that when he was by himself and had to sit on the tolet seat that a tile on the wall would open like a door and the hand would come out and grab his privates. So whenever he had to do #2 he would take my brother and I with him and make us sit in the dark laundry hamper with all the stinky, dirty clothes. As long as he had someone with him the hand would never come out.

Lisa Shattenkirk

I used to believe when you flushed the toliet and didn't run out fast enough,a red monster would eat you.

I was weird when I was little!

Silver

I was about 6 years old when the movie Jaws came out. I was so terrified of sharks after seeing it, that I thought if I sat on the hopper too long, a shark would bite my butt. This went on for years, but gradually the fear faded........until I saw Orca!

Michelle

Arachnaphobia - fear of spiders - always struck me most in the bathrooms. I was afraid to sit down without check under the seat to make sure there were no spiders coming up.
Of course, when camping in public camp sites, this is still my concern :-)

Anon

I used to be afraid of toilets, and I would run out of the bathroom right when I flushed my toilet, because I thought that when you flush your toilet, a monster comes out of it and eats you.

LiLTiger

when i was little i used to believe that if you sat down on the toilet for too long that the devil would take his staff and poke you in the butt! so i would never sit completely down on the loo.

Anon

My brothers told me that if you flushed the toilet when you were still sitting on it that it would suck you into the pipes and you would come out in the ocean. They would come into the bathroom and try to flush it before I could stand up. I started to pee in the bushes outside instead.

coutnry hick

When I was little, I somehow got it in my head that if you used the bathroom during a thunderstorm, you would be electrocuted by the lightning. I guess that was because my mom always told me not to go near water when there was lightning because I'd get electrocuted, and there was water in the toilet.

Lydia

After I read the 2nd Harry Potter book, I was convinced that if I flushed the toilet, a basalisk would jump out.

anonymous

I used to believe that if you flushed the toilet, a ghost would come out and kill you for flushing the precious toilet he haunted.

Molly