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I saw a picture once of a very green python curled in a toilet bowl. I became convinced that snakes curl up in toilet bowls sometimes. To this day, I still can't sit on the toilet in the dark, just in case.

Mike

i thought that whenever you pulled the toilet flush in our bathroom ghosts would come out of the toilet. i used to wash my hands before pulling the flush, just so i could run out of the bathroom before they caught me. once i got so scared i jumped down the entire flight of stairs to escape them - and executed a perfect landing on my feet at the bottom, with no injuries. not bad for a five year old!

bex

We spent many summers in Japan when I was little. At the time my aunt's toilet was not modern. It was a separate room with a toilet and a hole that dropped about 10 feet down. There was someone who cleaned it out every week or so. She was called "the honeybucket lady" Needless to say I was terrified that I would fall into the hole, if not for being so small then from passing out from the smell. But I was really nervous that I would accidently pee or poo on the honeybucket lady (as though she would be standing in there!) I always checked first.

Liz

I heard a story about a snake getting into the plumbing of some house so every time I sat down I spread my legs and looked down the whole time so a snake wouldn't pop up and bite me!

strange little girl

I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a moster would come up the u-bend and bite me.

Jenny

I always had a fear people were inside the toilet stool. I always thought people knew when i took a dump and would talk about me.

Anon

Somehow I saw Porkys (2 I think) when I was about 6, the part where the evil gym teacher sits on the toilet, and a snake (put in by the kids) comes out of the toilet while she is on it.. after that I was terrified to use a toilet... somehow I trained myself to go to the bathroom in record time.. because even now people always say "wow that was fast"

Anon

I used to be afraid that "boney Legs", a witch from a story Lived in the toilet.

anon

I used to believe that if i didnt run fast enough out of the bathroom after flushing the toilet that it would explode.I always made it so i was never proven wrong.

Tanya

My 4 year old son is deathly afraid of the automatic flushing toilets. He will NOT go on one.

Renee

When I was really young... I never had a problem with the toilet until one morning, while watching MTV's "Rude Awakening" Jon Stewart mentioned something about how they're celebrating the kicking of his co-host's fear of "The Toilet Monster". From then on, it made sense that the loud sound of the flush was the groaning of the monster. Still to this day I have a slight apprehension when I hear an abnormally loud flush.

Brent

i used to believe that scoripons could crawl up your toilet and pull you in.
No thanks to my big brother!

Alexandra

As a kid I refused to use toilets with those little half-circle fresheners that hooked on the side. They looked scary, they smelled scary, and they had me in a very vulnerable position.

Kendra

When I was little I was afraid to sit on the toilet because my grandma told me there was a monster that lived in the pipes, and it came up and grabble little kids who stayed on for too long.

Anon

When I was little my parents would send me out of the room if they were watching a scary movie. Whenever they did this I would always make up any excuse I could to go back out. Well one year I did this and I saw a part of some movie where the guy got his head cut off and then left in the toilet. It scared me so badly that I still sometimes check in the toilet for a head before I go to the bathroom! LOL

afraid

After my dad read The Hobbit to us, when we were little, I thought that Gollum lived in the toilet.

PixelFish

when i was little, i was always scarred of plugging up the toilet. it seems that every time i did, my parents would be angry at me. i could see the disappointment it in their eyes. after some time, when i flushed, i would plug my ears and run out of the room as to not be there if it happened. funny huh?

Anon