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Heard the HOME TRUTHS broadcast this morning, and thought of my own 'toilet werewolf' (50's USA) My sister and I used to believe that if you didn't *quickly* wash hands, flush and vacate the WC FAST, after depositing, a huge werewolf/Chewbacca-like creature would shoot up and drag you down with it by clamping its giant jaws on your your bum. Still get a bit scared at the thought...

Lee

When i was young, I sat on the toilet for ages, and fell asleep! When I woke up I wiped my bum and somehow managed to pull out a long, brown thing, a bit like a massivly long worm...
I was convinced from that day on that if you sat on the toilet for long enough you got attacked by the "bog worms"!

I'm too embarressed to say...

WHEN I WAS A CHILD I HAD A PHOBIA OF BROWN WOODEN TOILET SEATS, THE BIG LIGHT BROWN UNVARNISHED ONES WERE THE WORST, CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY THE DARK BROWN VARNISHED ONES. PUBLIC CONVENIENCES WERE A NIGHTMARE AS THEY ALL HAD THEM. MY MUM HAD TO COVER THEM UP WITH TOILET PAPER SO THAT I COULD NOT SEE THEM, IF I DID SEE ONE I WOULD GO HYSTERICAL. I AM NOW NEARLY 40 AND STILL HAVE MY PHOBIA, THANKFULLY THESE DAYS THERE ARE NOT SO MANY ABOUT!!

TRACEY JAYNE SMITH

I've always hated long-drop toilets. You know the ones - a deep hole in the ground with a toilet seat or plank over it, surrounded by a spider-infested shack? I was always scared spiders or other nasty creepy-crawlies (I live in NZ, so weta's were the worst) would come up and bite my bum. You'd think now I was all grown up I'd be ok, wouldn't you....... I still won't use long drops if I can help it.....

K, NZ

When I was about five or six years old, our church had this foul toilet behind the altar. It was a non-flush toilet, and it was real, real deep. I used to sit on there and hang on for dear life, because I was scared that I would fall down into the thing and never be able to get back out. Yuk. Now, though I can sit on the loo with no fear... hahaha

Ruth

While I entered school at the age of 6, we had a lunch at an eating-place that was simply terrible. And the toilets were the worst thing. Closets were in such disgusting sheet-metal boxes and one or two of them were permanently closed.
I thought that someone closed himself inside and couldn't open the door.
Because noone helped him he died.
I used to believe that there were locked skeletons at the toilets!

radka.cz

I used to beleive since you know the devil is underground that he would come and take me to the underworld I was so scared to go pottie. I would wipe very very fast and go!

Ariele

When I was very young, I saw the cover of a movie at a video renatl store. It had a toilet on it with a little green-skinned creature wearing strange clothing sticking out of it. After seeing that, I always thought he'd be in what ever toilet I was using, and was waiting until it stopped flushing before he crawled out to come after me. So, I always rushed myself to get out of the bathroom before the flush finished and he could come after me. I'm 17 and I still get a creepy feeling if I'm not out of the bathroom when the toilet's done flushing...

Bonnie Pea

when i was little, i used to think that when i sat down to use the toilet that snakes would come through the sewer lines and bite me in the butt. consequently, i tried to use the toilet as fast as i could!!! ha ha ha

jo-jo

I used to think if I sat on the toilet for too long a hairy hand would come out from the hole at the bottom and pull me under.

Samantha

I was sure something unspeakably horrible could happen to me if I stayed in the bathroom while the toilet was flushing...like I would get sucked in or something.

Cyn

i used to believe that little people lived in the toilets. and that they could eat anything and everything.

bob the pinecreek

I used to believe that whenever I flushed the toilet, the Scrubber Bubbles from those cleaning comercials, would come up out of the toilet and scrub me (and the bathroom) if I didn't get out of the bathroom before the toilet stopped flushing. It scared me really bad. I would wash my hands in the kitchen or other bathroom.

3- 7 year old Ashley

After seeing the Stephen King movie 'It', I would sometimes get spooked when going to the bathroom. I kept thinking that the clown with the jagged teeth was going to come up out of the toilet and do something awful to my private parts.

Anon

when I was little my sister had a sleep-over party and they watched a really scary movie about spiders..I wasnt allowed downstairs but I sat on the stairs listening to sounds..and there was this one part that some woman was attacked by the spiders when she went to the toliet..ever since that night I was really scared..and ditnwant to go to the toilet anymore..
when I finally realised that it wasnt going to happen I thought that there were ghosts and people watching me when I went to the toilet..

eeliene

My daughter was about 3 when I put a blue toilet freshener in the back, thus causing blue water..Well she thought that it was ocean water and sharks lived in it.Therefore she peed on my kitchen floor several times. I can not tell you how many flushes it took to get the clear water back...Never used them again.

Jen

I used to believe that when my dad flushed a dead fish or turtle down the toilet, the water would bring it back to life and it could jump up and bite my behind when I was using the bathroom.

Laura

Our toilet had some bad pipes, and made a LOT of noise. My evil brother told me there was a monster at the bottom of the hole that could sense heat, so it would feel the warmth of your body and GET you, unless you were quick. I blame a lot of my constipation problems on my brother.

Anon