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i used to think that if you sat down while peeing than a monster would jump up and eat your weiner

Harry Ballzonya

i used to beleive that when i flush the toilet the devil would come out of it...every time i flushed the toilet i ran like crazy!

Anon

I used to believe a rat would crawl up the toilet soo000 i made a sign and everytime nature called for someone in my house they had to shut the toilet seat after them unless they wanted a caning

star

As a child I use to believe that if you sat on the toilet that a hand would reach up and grab you, it would then take you down to the sewer and rape you. I was mortified. I use to squat over the toilet to use the bathroom until I was 8. I think I got this from a horror film. I sure scared me.

H.A.P

I used to believe that when I flushed the tolit, if I didn't leave the bathroom fast enough, a monster would op out from behind the tolit and kill me!

Sunny Daze the Pony

When I was young, I was always scared to go to use the washroom because of the song 'Santa Clause is Coming to Town'. Why?

"He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake..."

I figured that if he could see you when you were sleeping, he could also see you in the washroom. Pathetic, I know.

Kerri

I used to believe that there was a child-eating witch in the toilet... The way it worked is: whenever a child flushes, the witch can come out of the water and attack. The only way to escape from her was to run to where other people were (she doesn't show herself to grownups)... The strangest part about it is that a few years ago I told a friend about it, and she said she feard the witch too...

Yael

I once thought that the toilet's flushing worked by creating a very small black hole. and if I didn't get out of the way fast enough, I would get hit with the Hawking radiation when i flushed the toilet.(I read a lot of scientific american and science news)

Friends think i'm crazy

You know how toilets always continue the flushing noise for around 10 secs after you flush it? I used to believe that if I didn't leave the bathroom before the toilet was done flushing, that I would grow a penis and turn into a boy.

Rachel

when i was a baby, my parents were pottytraining me, and i sat on it for hours and fell asleep. and i dreamt i got eaten by the toilet. from then on i always had my mom hold a butter bucket inside the toilet for me until i was 3...

nobody

When I was younger I dreaded using the bathroom. I knew that eventually a snake would some how make its way into my toilet and bite my butt. I remember holding it in for a few days and occasionally using the bathroom outside if my parents weren't around. I was so terrified of a snake coming and biting my butt that it got to a point where I would cry when I had to go and try to hold it in as long as possible.

jAmIe

I used to be scared of the toilet, I thought, for some reason that i would get sucked into the toilet as it flushed... Wierd i know... I also used to be scared of the plug in the bath being taken out when i was still in the bath, the noise scared me and i ran to my room with my hands over my ears

Michael Lawrence

When I was very little, about three or four, I decided that every time you flushed the toilet, an evil witch came out. The only way you could hide from her was to get out of the bathroom before the toilet finished flushing.( I washed my hands in the kitchen sink)One time, I ran out and slammed the door behind me so hard, it fell apart. I couldn't understand why my parents where so upset, when instead they should be lookink for the witch, whom I was sure had escaped

:)

when i was little i used to believe that a giant turtle would climb up my toilet and nite me in the butt!

meg

I saw "Beetlejuice" for the first time when I was 4. I remember this one part where Beetlejuice comes out of the bathroom as this snake thing. I always assumed it was from the toilet, so for the longest time I couldn't go to the bathroom without freaking out about Beetlejuice being in my toilet.

Megh

I used to think the toilet was going to bite my butt off

Butt biter

I don't know why.. but, I used to believe that Freddy Krueger would come up out of the toilet when you flushed. So.. I would stand up and put my pants back on and stand as far away from the toilet as a flushed and then run out and slam the door behind me as fast as I could.

A Wild Cowgirl

this isn't my belief, but still very funny...and sad. i had recently broken my wrist and my father brought me 2 the childrens hospital b/c it was cheaper. i was sitting in the waiting room when a lady and her (probobly) 4 year old son came in. they took thier coats off and the lady stood in line to sign in. she told her son he could go to the bathroom. in a whimper voice he said, "go check to see if it flushed by it self..." the lady told her son to buck up and go. he said it a little louder now. his mom was probobly getting mighty embarrassed be cause her son was shrieking for her to see if it was an automatic. after about five minutes, he finnally went and i was called in to get checked. if felt so bad for the little guy.

sugarbob

I used to believe there was monsters in the toilet and when you flushed the toilet they would jump out and eat you. Or if you took too long in the bathroom they would come up and bite you in the ****. So I would flush the toilet and run.

H.S.

I have always been arachnaphobic. When I was a little kid, a spider fell down from the swingset I was on and landed on my hand; and I blame that. When I was about 7, I watched a TV show of an afternoon about a geenie who used to stuff up every wish asked of him. On one episode, the show being set in outback Australia, a woman said to a girl about to use an outdoor toilet, "Check the dunny (Aussie slang for toilet) for redbacks (a deadly Aussie spider), under the seat. A fellow only last week died of one that bit him on the bum" or something like that. Ever since, still to this day (at the age of 16) because I live in Australia, I have checked the underside of the toilet seat and the rim of the toilet for spiders before I have sat down. Until recently, I used to jump up in alarm when my leg got itchy.

Pat the Paranoid