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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 young, i used to believe that straight after i flushed the toilet snakes would come out of the wall, and attack and eat me. therefore i used to sprint out of the toilet as fast as i could.

milz

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

As a kid I use to think that when I would sit on the toilet a witch's hand would come up and grab my bum. It was pretty frightening.

Krispy

my dad told me that if i didnt wipe myself properley after using the toilet, a big hairy hand would come up through the toilet and get me. I used to flush the toilet while still on it and leave the door open so i could run out..........just in case.

bird

After watching the film "Deep Rising", in which a woman was sucked down the toilet by a mutant (and you can all guess what that looked like)
i could not go to my toilet for the next week without inspecting "doon the pan " for mutant snakes!!

scotty

I used to beleive I had to get out the loo and downstairs before it stopped flushing or an evil horrible monster would follow me and drag me down it.
Generally though I was scared of any toilets. Espeacialy the very old public victorian ones.

Beef

My grandma had a big house, and a big 4 car garage that some of the house was on top of, including the bathroom. The pipes went down through the garage, so that when someone flushed the toilet and you were in the garage, you could hear a really loud noise, and it scared the hell out of me every single time I was down there. Whenever I had to be in the garage for something, I left as soon as possible, in case someone went to the toilet!

:)

When I was only 4 years old my Grandparents had a house in the countryside and it had the toilet outside. It was very creepy and the outhouse was full of spiders and i was told that there live ugly little trols and that when you go in there they grab you and take you down the toilet.

Dow

i used to think when i was like 5 or 6 that a leprechaun would crawl up into me when i was peeing.

anonymous

Somehow through the manipulations of my older sister, I used to believe that when I was going to the bathroom, one of her classmates would crawl up through the pipes so he could stare at me while I went to the bathroom. She also told me if it wasn't her classmate, sometimes a tiger would do the same, and try to bite me. I was so scared my butt would be bitten off while I was innocently trying to pee.

Kristi

When I was small, I believed there was a monster at the other end of the toilet pipe, and when you flushed the toilet, it was a signal to him to start sucking, and he would suck up everything in the bowl. Now, this is bad enough, but I also thought that if you didn't close the lid fast enough, he'd suck you in, too!

Polemidas

My friend always checks inside the porter-potty before actually going because she's afraid that somebody will grab her and kidnap her.....

Anon

There are two toilets in my house - one in the bathroom, and one in a little room off from the laundry. My 11 year old brother has only just started using the laundry toilet again after a 6 year fear that there are frogs living in it. In all fairness there is a creek behind our house, so we do occasionally get frogs near our house. To make it more fun, I have a toy frog with a motion sensor, so it croaks if you walk past. I'd put that in the toilet room just to scare him if he walked in.

Phil

Ok when i was little i watched Jason (the one w/ the hockey mask) and after that i was scared to death when i had to go to sleep so my mom told me that Jason is down the toliet so i believed her .so after i went to the bathroom i would flush and run for my life thinking that Jason would come up the tolit!! (lol)

Jason buddy

I have a similar one to the girl who had a scary door at school. We did too, and one day (on a dare) i opened it and there were lots of pipes and gum. I was disappointed because we thought there were dead people in there too.

Emily

when i was little, my Dad told me the story about the Poo-poo monster, a monster that lived in the toilets and would grab you and pull you in whenever you sat down to use the bathroom.i believed this and absolutely refused to use the bathroom.this was serious.my parents thought they would actually have to end up taking me to the doctor because i wouldn't use the bathroom!!but....eventually i did....

Meggy

In my parents bathroom, their toilet was really loud. At least that's how I remember it. And everytime I would flush it, I would run through their bathroom and jump onto their bed, bc spiders would come crawling out of the toilet and a monster would be under their bed.

Joycelyn

I use 2 believe that Freddy Kruger (Sorry can't spell) lived down the toliet. And when i flushed it he would get mad and want 2 kill me. Whenever i went 2 the bathroom I'd run away very fast after I flushed so he did't get me. I think I belived this till I was about 10.

April B

For some reason, I was incredibly afraid of the urinals in the infants (age 4-7) section of my primary school, particularly the automatic flushing thing they would do. I think I believed that they would flood the place, and it would fill up with water.

For some of my first year there, I refused to go in alone, until I wet myself as a result of that policy. I was still scared of them for a while, though, despite being fine with other urinals - in fact, once in year 5 the junior toilets were being cleaned or something so I had to use the infant ones - even with the knowledge that the urinals were not, in fact, out to get me, I was still somewhat suspicious of them.

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