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i used to be so afraid of toilets. i literally believed that captain hook lived in our toilet, and he would come up the drain and poke me in the bottom with his hook. In order to keep from getting peed on, he had an umbrella around his wrist and he would just have the hook sticking out the top. how wierd...where in the world would I have gotten that from?

liz

When I was a child I was terrified to flush the toilet, as I thought the shower would turn on and soak me. I remember using the toilet, washing my hands, opening the door of the bathroom, then flushing the toilet and running out of the room as quick as I could before the shower could turn on.

Mojo!

I used to believe that flushing the toilet in the middle of the night would alert any nearby lurking monsters of my location. But, if I couldn't hear it then they couldn't hear it, so I would plug my ears and flush with my elbow.

Kate

When I was small and just starting to use a proper toilet, I had a terrible fear of falling down it in case I got flushed away!

KtW

I used to believe that if you where in a bathroom/ stall after you flushed it. IT (the killer clown) would come out and eat you. So IF I flushed out the toilet I would RUN out of the bathroom! Sometimes screaming... oops

monster no more

I was scared of E.T, and I thougt that he was going to come up my toilet with an alien gun and zap my butt off....

Anon

I wasn't potty trinaed until I was 4. I have reason to believe this is because my older brother (he was 10 at the time) told me that I would fall in the toilet and drown. Well, believeing this, I refused to use the potty. That is up until one day I was doing the pee-pee dance and whining and my father grabbed me up by the armpits and said "GO USE THE POTTY!" very loudly. I'm quite surprised I didn't go right there. I managed to get to the bathroom and use the potty....crying the whole time.

Apparently I was more scared of my father's yell than I was the potty.

Anon

I thought that if I sat on the toilet (as opposed to "hovering"), crabs would jump up and bite my butt.

My friend's mother had tried to tell me about pubic lice, and I was all confused, thinking that hoards of sea-crabs lived under the rim of the bowl.

Ele

My girlfriend used to believe that if she used the toilet downstairs in her house that rats would come up and bite her bum! A belief that eventually spread to all downstairs toilets.
Even to this day she will avoid using toliets that are downstairs.

Matt

Before flushing the toilet when i was a kid, i used to open the door and get ready to run as soon as i had flushed it. For some reason i thought a gorilla was going to come out of the toilet, roaring at me. As i got older, i realised it wouldnt be able to get out of such a small space.

Jennifer

i used to believe if you sat on the toitlet long enough, captin hook from the movie "hook"(w/ robin williams) would come out of the hole and poke me in the butt. i still get scared today.

scardy pants

When I was the toilet I used to shake my head sometimes, because there was a ghost who counted the hair, If the ghost finished counting, the person in the toilet would die. So whenever I remember the story I shook my head badly.

Chang Hee Jeong

When I was very young, I thought that the little red sensors in automatic toilets were cameras taking pictures of people's behinds.

Piper

When i being potty-trained, my parents told me that if i missed the toilet, a snake would pop up and bite my weiner off. I believed it for about a year till i finally missed the toilet. I was horrified for a few minutes.

The weiner snake

i was scared of flushing the toilet when i was young because i thought water would shoot out and that i'd drown in the water

Anon

When i was about 5 - 8 years old i used to think that when you pooped sometimes a baby could come out... after i did my business i would check the loo because i thought the babys would drown.. i never found a baby in the end.. i didnt know that 5 year old boys could produce babies from their bums

HAZZAA

When I was very young I was positively convinced that flushing the toiltet would unleash an evil genie upon me. As such, on the rare occasions that I did flush, I'd race out the door and slam it behind me.

Hannah

When I was young my best friend and next door neighbor told me that when you flush the toilet an evil witch comes out and sucks you down. I believed this for a really long time, longer than i'd like to say. Even now, if I'm alone in the house and go to the bathroom I leave the door open so i can run out faster. I'm 20.

Kathleen

I used to believe that when you went to the toilet at night you were in danger of turtles jumping up and biting your bum..

Anon

I used to believe that when you flushed a toilet, you had until the water level reached the drain pipe to get out of the bathroom before a terrible monster would come out and hurt me. This resulted in me booking it down our hallway every time I pressed the flush. And we're not even going to touch the automatic toilets in public restrooms.

Ernie