fear of

well, my brother used to tell me to flush the toilet because if i dont, the monster in the toilet will come up and get me. i was also told that the sound i made when i flush the toilet, was the monster's screaming. i was still a little afraid of flushing toilet now though...ha ha

JENNIFER BOO

I used to think that when you sat down on a toilet and giant snake would pop out and grab you that still scares me! how funny

Jennifer Guerrero

when i was little i was always terrified that i would fall down the toiliet and never be seen again so i ALWAYS remebered my name and my house and my phone # and my parents names so if i was flushed down the toileit i could shout them out and someone would either come rescue me or tell my parents i died.

Potty Pants

I used to believe when you flushed the toilet it opened up and ghosts could come through and grab you. I got it from a rhyme that went something like 'they flushed the chain and out came the ghost train' and I used to always flush the chain quickly and run out of the room as quickly as I could.

Anon

When my sister was younger, we lived with our grandparents. Everytime my sister went to sit on the toilet, she was convinced that our grandfather - in blue, agitated, and sperm-like form - was swimming in the toilet, ready to bite her on the bum.

Raven

I used to think that plumbers were men who had to live inside the toilet and sweep all of the...wastes...out. I was always afraid one of them would accidentially climb out of the toilet while I was using it. To top it all off, my dad had a friend who was a plumber and I always asked him what it was like inside the toilet. He probably thought I was insane. Which I was. But I'm fine now.

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I used to believe that if you used a toilet on a boat (a big boat like a M.V for example) that if you flushed it before you got off the seat that sea water would come up and squirt you! i was on an M.V once and I was afraid of being splashed by water but eventually my dad made me go to the wahsroom so i wouldn't wet my pants in the night.

internet freak

I used to believe when I was about 4 that aligators lived in the sewer and when you had a poop they would swim up through the pipes and bite your bum. I always checked befour I sat down. I realised a few years later that they couldn't swim through the narrow pipes!

Ben Dover

After watching the Little Mermaid, i just knew that Ursula (the scary evil octopus) lived in our house. I knew that everytime i flushed the toilet one of her arms would come out to try and catch me. Every time i flushed the toilet i was terrified that she would catch me and take me away.
Even when i flush the toilet now, i'm always cautious that a long slimy tenticle isn't following me.

anon

When I was 5, my brother in-law told me that when you flush the toilet that if you're still on it, you'll get flushed down the toilet. I beleived that until I was almost seven, when I kept sitting on it after i flushed to see what happened. To my surprise, nothing did.

Weirdo

My cousin believed that if he flushed the toilet he would be sucked right in, and would always call someone to flush it for him .. he got over that when he was 14!

Nancy

When i was little i used to think that a snake would come out of the tolite every time i pooped... i thought that this snake would crawl up my anal cavity and travel through my body until it came out my mouth... eww

Shanksey

I used to believe that aligators lived in the sewers and after we flushed the toilets they would eat it. I was always quick to get off the toilet in case an aligator decided to come up through it!

Anon

I used to believe that when u flushed a toilet (well when it made that loud noise) well i thought that a big monster would come out and eat you!! lol ,man what was i thinking? lol

Deeds

I used to believe that when you flushed the toilet, and left your hand on the flush for a long time, you'd be sucked right in.

Anon

I used to be scared of the older-style toilets with a raised tank, due to an episode of Grange Hill in which someone pulled the chain and the water from the tank emptied onto them. I think it was just a prank played by some other kid on the show, but I still believed that could happen if I used one.

fakey mcfakename

For some reason, I was incredibly afraid of the urinals in the infants (age 4-7) section of my primary school, particularly the automatic flushing thing they would do. I think I believed that they would flood the place, and it would fill up with water.

For some of my first year there, I refused to go in alone, until I wet myself as a result of that policy. I was still scared of them for a while, though, despite being fine with other urinals - in fact, once in year 5 the junior toilets were being cleaned or something so I had to use the infant ones - even with the knowledge that the urinals were not, in fact, out to get me, I was still somewhat suspicious of them.

christ on a bike

when I was in year 4 (age 7-8 for those of you not familiar with the british school system), some kid told me that if you went into the toilets, turned the lights off and said something like "I believe in St. Mary's Lighthouse" three times, a ghost would come out.

Of course, I believed him - I went in, turned the lights off and damn near shit myself, only managing a half-arsed "hello?" before I ran out of there.

the ghost of st.mary's lighthouse