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When I was about five or six, I was at the video store with my mother and as she was browsing I accidently came across the horror section and saw the cover of the film - I think it was 'Ghoulies' or something, anyway it has a sharped toothed green gremlin type thing coming out of a toilet. I couldn't get the image out of my head - just from a video cover. For the six or seven years, I had a fear of going to the toilet at night. If it was really urgent I would have to go through a ritual of turning on the light and checking under the toilet seat, and then ensuring that the door was firmly closed when I was finished, so I couldn't be visited by any green monsters in my room. I was terrified. It took significant effort to shake the feeling of fear right up until about the age of fifteen, even after I'd realised it wasn't possible to have monsters in the toilet.

Ben Bellissimo

When I was little my mother (who was a nurse and should have known better) told me that if I sat on the toilet for too long, germs would go up my bottom.

Anon

Some kid told me that the Cybermen from Doctor Who lived in drains, so I thought that if I was still in the toilet when when it finished flushing they would get me. Therefore, I had to sprint from the toilet down the hallway to the living room before the flushing stopped.

Thankfully I always made it in time.

Obviously.

Clive

When I was little, I used to think that alligators or crocidiles would come up the toilet and eat my while I was on the "can". I'd sit on the toilet, do my business, then jump up as fast as I could and put the lid down... Then flush and laugh 'cause they didn't get me!!!

Melody

I was convinced that if you didn't wash your hands after going to the bathroom, they would catch on fire. I'm not sure if someone told me this or if it was my own invention, but it worked!

Brad

After watching the OLD FASHIONED horror movies, I was afraid that the monster from the movie would come up from the toilet and grab me!!!

cindyjm

When I was about six I heard that there were these spiders called black widows that hid under the loo seat who could bite you and you'd die in seconds! I used to check under the toilet seat for years after that.

I never realized blck widows only live in Austrailia!

TomARSE

I was always told that if you flush the chain when you are sitting on the toilet, then you would get sucked down with it. I believed this until I was 15

Dave Rogers of the RSPCA

When I was small I used to believe that a monster lived in the toilet and ate my poo. I thought that if I sat on the throne for too long it would bite my bum, so I never closed the door until I was about 10 I would jump off and sprint into the hall.

NuNu

When i was a child I had to be extremely careful when going to the toilet in small stalls. The reason for this was because I belived the toilet would attac me when I flushed it if I didn't ran out of the stall or kept eye contact with it. Pretty hard to do that with a toilet, you can imagine.

Norwegian

I was TERRIFIED of public toilets. But there is a reason. When I was very young, I had a terrible dream that I went to use a restroom in a Chinese restaurant, and there was a giant toilet that flushed and swallowed me up. Then when I told my parents, my dad thought it was funny and confirmed that toilets will swallow me. I wasn't afraid of the toilets at home, because I knew they had never swallowed anyone, but public restrooms terrified me because they flush so loudly and with great force. I would hold it often until I wet myself. But somehow, I thought the toilet wouldn't swallow me if I was with someone. So in elementary school, I was often escorted to the bathroom.

Bonnie

i used to belive that when you flush a toilet on an aeroplane you get sucked down

milly

Once, when I was about 5 or 6, I believed that paw prints (like the kind that dogs have) could fall from the vent above the toilet, so sometimes when I was "going," I'd sit and watch the vent to make sure none fell on me.

Some Idiot

After seeing "Jaws", I feared sitting on the toilet because a large toilet shark would rush up and bite my butt.

R. Wiggum

when i whas five i had a rat
it drowned in the toilet and got flushed
down(i dont know how)my mother told me what happend and after that i always
check toilets before i use em i scare
of losing my sacred parts.

slann_lord

I used to belive that if I went to the toilet,sat down and pushed really really hard, my inside would come out. I olso belived that a awfull hand could come up, and drag my insides out.

Frida

I used to believe that Gremlins lived in the toilet, and when you flushed they'd try to reach up and grab your ass, so I used to jump off the toilet as fast as I could up until I was about 6.

Jen

When I was in the first or second grade a guy living with us died in our downstairs bathroom.I never really used that bathroom after that because I was afraid he haunted the toilet.I was afraid his ghost's hand would reach up and grab my bum.Even though I'm in college now,I'm still afraid to use that bathroom late at night.

Ally

I used to believe that after flushing the toilet, if I did not run and jump on my bed before the flushing stopped, something bad would happen.

Laura W.