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I used to think that when you flushed the toilet in my grandparent's, a ghost would come out. I was so scared that I didn't even try sitting down on the toilet because I would be terrified it would grab me while it was still down there before i flushed!

Imagine the confusion when I was holding my bottom all through dinner and dessert because I was afraid of ghosts.

Laurie

There was a tale in my primary school that a ghost hunted the toilets and her rings had been flushed down it. If you flushed teh toilet and hung about in a couple of days you would have scares all over your arms where she attacked you. I believed this for years and always waited until the last minute before i flushed the toilet.

adt

I used to believe a rat would crawl up the toilet soo000 i made a sign and everytime nature called for someone in my house they had to shut the toilet seat after them unless they wanted a caning

star

When I was about 6 or 7 I used to belive that if I sat on the toilet to long a gremlin would come out of the toilet and bite my butt, so when I was alone I would always flush the toilet and run as fast as I could into my bedroom. I would hide under my bed covers just to make sure the gremlins wouldn't capture me and eat me.

sarah

I used to think when u flused the toilet if you dident leave b4 it was done flushing it would explode! So i would alawas get steched and ready 2 run then flush and scamble away! LOL!

keir

When i was younger there used to be a show on about a family of dinisours..one of which lived in the tiolet. so i would always check befor i went to the bathroom to make sure he wasnt in my toilet

kaitlin

When i was little ..er and sometimes i think about it still..on an episode of Mac Gyver i think...this woman had snakes come up outta her toilet and that vision never quite disappeared and i always used to check the toilet before i sat...still do sometimes *blush*

Anon

At the skating rink i used to go to te toilets there were automatic so u wouldnt haf to flush them, there would a sensor that waould no when u stood up. so until i was 6 i had my mom go to the bathroom with me and cover her hand over the sensor while i was going because i was a fraid that i would get sucked in if it flushed before i was done.

Stupid

I had the same fear of toilets that (apparently) many people had; that is, I thought they were an embodiment of evil.

But I have an excuse. When I was about four, I had this really painful ear infection; thus, my ears were really sensitive, and everything sounded like it was about 5 times louder than it should be. Cue me using a toilet on an airplane for the first time. Now, for those of you who haven't flown on an airplane, when the toilet flushes, it creates suction to get rid of the... matter. Otherwise, if there's turbulence... well, you do the math. However, this suction makes a rather loud noise; to my sensitive ears, it felt like my head was going to explode. Thus my irrational fear of AIRPLANE toilets; I'm cool with the normal kind.

To this day, I make sure to wash my hands, unlock the door, etc., so I can come bursting out of the door the moment I flush the toilet.

LordNyax89

When i was about 5 i thought i would fall in the toilet and get flushed down and end up in the sewer with the gators

cha_cha_man

When I was little I used to think that when you were going to the washroom little fuzzy ball type things with mouths, that lived in the sewers, would come and either bite my butt or drag me into the pipes and possibly torture me. Oh an with outhouses I always belived that there was a man sitting on a swing in the hole, which sometimes I am still scared of expecially after that scene in Schindler's(SP) list where thekids are hiding and jump into the outhouse.

Laura

I used to be terrified of snakes. I thought they lived in the plumbing and would come out when you flushed the toilet, so I would zip up and wash my hands first, and then flush the toilet and run out of the room and slam the door so they couldn't get to me.

Anon

When i was about three, My older brother would tell me that if you didn't flush the toilet, the king of the sewer would turn you into poo. Then he would bring you to his domain,and turn you into one of his servants.

Michael Potts

i used to believe that if you flushed the toliet and didnt get out of the bathroom in under a minute the vampires inh the sewers would come and drag you down the toliet

Anon

When I was a little kid, we had a BIG walk in closet at the end of our hallway, right next to our bathroom. I was 100% convinced that a monster lived in that closet, and that every time you flushed the toilet, you woke him up and the sound of the water banging in the pipes after you flushed was really him trying to break out of the closet. The few times i was brave enough to actually flush the toilet, I would run into my room as fast as I could and hide under the blankets until the banging stopped.

Ailish

When i was little, i pooped a LOT. and my cousin noticed this. she told me that if i poop too much,the poop would lift me up, and crush me against the ceiling! so ever since then (i was 4,) untill i was 7, i always flushed after a piece of poop came out!!!

Anon

When i was little i watched my dad flush spiders down the toilet. whenever i would go to the bathroom i was always afraid those spiders were going to come up and bite me on the bottom!!

Anon

When I was about ten I was afraid to use the
tiolets at school because I thought that there was
a bomb on the tiolet seat and that the bomb would go off if I sat on the tiolet. so I would have to hold in my pee all day at school.

Rachel

i would never sit on the toilet very long i used to sit down for a second. pee or whatever then stop and stand up and look in the toilet to make sure there wasnt a snake coming up from the pipe.

amber

I used to be scared at pubic places when i flush the toilet I thought and water monster would come out and get me cause it was so loud I still kinda beleive it.....

Tiara 10