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I used to believe that if I was chewing gum while using the toilet, it would be magically sucked out of my mouth, down my throat, through my body, and into the toilet. Nothing too scary, but I would ALWAYS spit out my gum before using the toilet, until one day I didn't and nothing happened.

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I used to believe that snakes could climb out of the toilet and bite you. So every time I had to go I would pre-flush the toilet no less than 3 times before I would even sit on it. Just in case a snake was crawing up the pipes he would be dissoriented him long enough for me to pee in peace!

Sandra

I used to be scared that when I flushed the toilet the water would go everywhere instead of where it was supposed to go. I believed this because at school one of the boys said that that happened in the boys' toilets.

Anon

When I was about 7 my babysitter told me that if I flushed the toilet at midnight on a full moon, the mustard monster would come out and drag me into the toilet...I believed her until I was probably 10, when I got the chance to flush at midnight on the full moon.

Gina

when i was 6,i used to live in a house where our next door neighbours owned a huge pitbull terrier dog and each time i would go into the backyard it would bark and i got scared.
My toilet faced the neighbours house and everytime i went to do a wee or poo, i would do it quickly as i thought the dog would get through the pipes and bite my bum off.

Tianna

When I was a child, I believed that there was a blonde woman in the men's room, which abducted children to the world of ghosts.

tekoBR

When I was little I played soccer and they had a porta potty if the players needed to go. One time when we were leaving I needed to use one and my mom told me to hurry up or the wee-wee grabber would get me. I don't think I've ever gone into one of them since.

Anon

I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet at night after everyone was asleep it would eat me and there would be no one there to bear witness to my death.

Nellie

When I was 4 years old my older sister told me that there was a monster in the toilet and, whenever I flushed it the monster would come out to get me... I would flush it and run like there was no tomorrow(I thought that there wouldn't be if the monster got me!). That fear lasted until I was 5.

Dillon Cower

After seeing JAWS the film on TV when I was very young I was scared of visiting the toilet.

There is a young woman who gets killed at the start and I believed I'd see her arm in the toilet bowl.

Max

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

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 and we went on trips, every so often we would have to stop at a road side park to use the out-house. My biggest fear was sitting on the toilet. I was scared to death that a spider would come up and bite my butt or worse........ I would catch "Crotch Crickets" to avoid this from happening I would have to straddle the hole. To this day I still do the same thing. Hey, Ya never know!

Tinkle-Wink

I used to belive that scary muppets where coming up from the toilets when the lid was closed(!).. therefore I refused to enter a bathroom if the lid wasn't open.

David

I used to believe if you closed the toilet door after using it the toilet would overflow.It must have happened once when I was little and nobody heard the toilet running because I had closed the door!

Anon

I watched a special on tv about the most indestructable animals on the planet, and according
to it, rats could go through sewer pipes and pop out your toilet. I got very nervous about going to the tiolet, so I never actually sat on it, I just stood above it, until my mum told me we had a septic tank.

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i used to go for a pee at night and when i flushed the chain i used to RUN LIKE HELL because there would be a hand reaching up the bowl to drag me in and drown me! dont know where this came from but it lasted till after i was married!!!

Jo

i used to believe that everytime i sat on the toilet little gremlins were kidding in the water pipe on the toilet and everytime i sat down they were going to grab my butt and pull me down the drain

Anon

When i was little my mum used to read the newspaper to me. Well one day she read me some article about sewage, and how rat infested it was. I asked what sewage was, and she said it was what ur poops turned into. From then on i was scared to go to toilet cos i thought rats lived in it, and that they would bite my bum while i was going to toilet. My brothers has to sit in the bathroom with me while I pooed cos i was so sacred of something happening to me! POOR them!

Shane

i saw ghostbusters 2 when i was 5 or 6 and i used to believe that the pink slime that came out of the bathtub facuet in the movie would come up out of the toilet and get me when i flushed. so i would pull one of the "flush and run" routines whenever i went pee. i still get laughed out by my family. (10 years later)

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