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When I was a kid I always thought that at night if the toilet lid wasn't shut burglars would sneak in to the house through the toilet!

Anon

When i was little i used to think that aliens controlled the toilet. If the lid was down, i'd have to enter a long, complicated code into the toilet by punching invisible digits on the lid before I could use the restroom. I messed myself a few times as a result of this long code. However, if I failed to enter the code or entered it incorrectly, the aliens would kill me on the crapper. And that to my young mind would have been the ultimate embarassment--to die on the crapper, just like elvis

Leah

When I was little I used to have lots of nightmares about toilets overflowing + flooding the world. For some reason I believed this could actually happen, + I decided that the best way to avoid it was to befriend each toilet I used.
I would introduce myself to public toilets, + try to use the same one if I went there again so it wouldn't think I'd gone off with someone else, 'cos that would make it really, really angry. + you don't want to upset someone with the power to flood the world, do you?

Nin

i used to be afraid to flush the toilet because i thought that it would suck me down and i would never see my family again then i would have to live in a giant crap place with other kids who were sucked in the toilet

maria

When I was about five, my best friend told me that a vampire lived in the end cubicle of the girl's toilets at school. The other cubicles had a ghost and a goblin that were decidedly scarier.
She said the vampire would eat us if we went in wearing a watch. So every time one of us needed to go in there, we gave our watch to the other girl.
One time she was not in class - I really had to go, so I ran as fast as I could, skidded on the mopped floor and knocked myself out on the wall next to the cubicle.

Eleanor

When I went to my friends house they would have blue water in the toilet. I used to believe that it was the same thing as the pink goo from ghost busters!

Anon

As a child I believed that toilets were alive. When you used them, you were feeding them, and if they didn't like what you fed them, they'd vomit it back up (overflow). If you made them angry, they would eat you, so you had to be nice to them and not make them sick. Stranger-toilets (e.g. public restrooms) were especially untrustworthy - best to keep an eye on them at all times.

I also believed that they would detach from the wall and dance around the bathroom at night when no one was around. You couldn't normally catch them at this, because they'd go back to being inert as soon as they heard you coming, but if you closed the bathroom door and then quietly crawled up to it and looked under the bottom, you could see this happening.

Anon

I used to believe that once you flushed the toliet the Rice Crispy Elves would come out of the toliet and attack you and force you to live with them in the sewer.

Jolie

I used to think that whenever you flushed the toilet germs would come spraying out, so I ALWAYS made sure to close the toilet lid, then I washed my hands, opened the door, flushed and ran for it!!
Then I went to a public toilet, and, horror of horrors, IT DIDN'T HAVE A LID!!! I was so terrified that I opened the door, wen't and got a stick, and reached in and pushed the button with it before runnin like hell for home and then washing my arm with disinfectant, which turned out to be mouthwash as I couldn't read.

magz

when i was 3-6 i thoughr that if i went to the toilet at night by myselfi would find a dog wearing glass reading the newspaper and he would not let me go to the loo

sugerbabe

Everytime I had to go to the bathroom when I was little, my sister would tell me not to put down the seat because that would mean the evil toilet man would suck me up and I'd never come out. I believed her, and when I went to go to the bathroom, I put DOWN the seat, thinking I'd be safe. When I sat down, my butt fell in the toilet and started screaming, "HELP! THE TOILET MAN IS SUCKING ME UP!"

caraboo

I am a chinese(Singaporean) and parents call boy's penis "xiao niao"(birds). I also saw a news article about snakes being found in toilet bowls. So here comes my fear: I did not dare to use the toilet or sit on it at all because snakes live in toilet bowls and they will eat your birds(penis) because i did learn that snakes do eat birds. I dared not enter public toilets and i would make sure i had a stick around me when i was at home in the toilet and also having adults around. It was really scary then but really stupid when i come to think of it now

cheng wee

when i was little i thought that little alligators would come out of the toilet after flushing it. Every time i used the bathroom i would run out immediately after flushing!

say.impg

i totally used to beleive that if you flushed the toilet while you were still on it you whould get sucked into some other world where those guys from the rice crispies box lived (snap, crackle,and pop if i remember corectly) and be forced to work for them for the rest of my life. Quite a wild imagination i had.

dee howthehelldotheygetittopop man

For years my brother simply refused to use the toilet and no-one knew why. Whenever we went on trips he would say he didn't need to go and then Mum would find him sqatting in a park garden! It was only when he was about nineteen that we finally discovered that it was our Aunt's fault - at my grandparents house there was a frog in the toilet and she had warned him that it might jump up and bite his bum, thus instilling a crippling fear of toilets in my young, trusting brother.

tess

when i was younger, probly about 6 or 7.. i couldn't find my mom so i ran all around the house trying to find her and i ran straight into my brother. So he asked me what i was doing, he said "i know where she is". And he walked me into my parents bathroom and pointed to the toilet and it was swirling. He said "i flushed her down the toilet". I screemed and sat down by the toilet and cried until mom finally got home.. and then i thought she was a ghoast

-d-ko

Whenever I was in a public restroom, I'd always pull up my pants BEFORE flushing, because I had this freakish fear that when I flushed, the toilet could decide to blow up, and I didn't want people to see my dead body lying around with my pants still down.

Anon

My big sis once told me that someone found a girl dead on the toilet with an arrow in her behind. After hearing that, i was terrified of going to the bathroom 'cus i thought someone below our house would shoot an arrow up the toilet, shooting my behind.

Meggy

When I was little I used to believe that when I went to the bathroom there were monsters hiding in the shower so before I sat down on the toilet I had to open the shower curtains and make sure there was nothing hiding in there. I also believed if I sang while I was on the toilet it would keep the monsters happy and they wouldnt eat me.

Hillary

For quite a few years after I was potty-trained, I used to belive that if you were sitting on the toilet when you flushed, it would suck you back in time. So when I watched movies about time machines, I was surprised that they never mentioned anything about a toilet.

delaney