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My friend Aliana told me in 1st grade that a ghost had come out of the toilet in the big stall in the girls bathroom and had written "GET OUT! GO AWAY!" in blood on the mirror, and my friend Beth ( who had moved) had gotten killed and eaten and that's why she wasn't at school anymore. So, then I was scared of the loud noise the toilet flushing made, afraid that the ghost would come out, so since my hands were all pee-y, I'd cover my ears with my elbows and go and and wash my hands, not looking in the mirror, and RUN OUT of the bathroom!! I even did that at home. My parents thought I was weird...

Alexandra B., 12

when i was 2 3 4 yrs old i thought the toilet bowl while flushing was a monster that will flush me away i was terrified of loud flushing toilet in shopping centres

irritated kid

When I was younger I had watched the movie "look who's talking 2" and i thought that the toilet would acctually eat me so i was afraid to flush it

Anon

When I was little I told my grama about how a zoo guy brought a huge snake to my class room but I was kind of scared of it. She told me that snakes can come up the toilet while you are going. I envision that snake that was 3 times longer than i was tall coming up the toilet! I always would check for them before going to the bathroom and be scared which going. It took me a long time to get over it...

Anon

when i was about 6 i saw aligators in the sewear(sp?) in cartoons and my mom would tell me that its connected to every toilet and so she said if i dont hurry up from using the bathroom the aligators would try to drag me down threw the hole thing by biting my butt.

nicole

When I was little, flushing the toilet was the scariest thing in the world to me. I distinctly remember RUNNING out of bathroom stalls -- especially the ones with the really LOUD "flushers" -- to avoid having the toilet overflow and drown me in a bathroom full of raging toilet water, complete with rats, dragons, spiders, and of course, all the world's sewage. (You know, come to think of it, I'm not really sure I've overcome that fear.) :)

Celia Rangel

When I was little I beleived if you flush the toilet it would swallow you down with the water. So whenever I got done using the bathroom, I never flushed the toilet because I was scared!!!!!

Casey

I used to believe that there was someone in the toilet and there was a hand that would grab me and pull me into the toilet. So everytime i went to the bathroom, i kinda squatted over the toilet so i could run out of the bathroom when i was done. lol.

tipsy

when i was about 7, i used to be terrified of sitting on the toilet because i thought the teenage mutant hero turtles would climb up from their home in the sewers and see my bum!

suzy

after watching arachnaphobia i thought there was a huuuuuuuuuuge spider in the toilet and it would bite me so i watched the toilet and flush ed at least 3m away from the toilet now i have concered my fear but my brother has not

boobs

When I was little, I used to think that there were pirates in the toilet (don't ask me why!). I was so scared that when I went to the toilet, I would allways pretend to be a pirate so that the pirates wouldn't eat me. I kept bringing my plastic sword & eyepatch to the toilet with me until I was about five!!!

psyco kid

I used to believe that, when I went to the bathroom, once I flushed, a monster would come in to being. So, for at least two years, every time I went to the bathroom, I'd flush and sprint out of the bathroom and down any halls I had to until I reached my destination. If I was in my house, I'd flush and run as fast as a could to my room and jump into my bed, where I was safe.

Anonymous

when i was about 4 or 5 my brother told me that the tidy bowl man lived in the toilet and everytime i peed he would try to bite my butt. so for a while i always made my mom go with me.

Anon

When I was little, I believed in something I called 'the bathroom genie'. He looked like the little blue dude from Aladdin, but he lived right at the bottom of the toilet (rather than, say, the bottom of a lamp). If you didn't get off the toilet immediately after going to the bathroom, he would come out and eat you. This troubled me in the hygiene department for a few years.

Anon

I used to believe that, when I was like 5, I saw the toilet seat up as I was about to take a dump and I ran screaming to mom, " MOMMY TREVOR (my Brother) GOT SUCKED UP INSIDE THE TOILET!!!"
As I saw water all over the floor from what I called an Explosion. I was bursting in tears until my Mother said, " Honey, he's in the garage, come look." She took me to the garage and I saw him there and boy, did I make a fool out of myself.


I also believed that if you went potty when the toilet seat was up you would fall inside and meet dead fish throwing a party.

Im 25 and I always get laughs thinking of that day

Annie

I used to be afraid that snakes might jump out of the toilet when I'm sitting down.

Jordan

i was told that the toilet flush in the airplanes will suck your intestines straight out from your butt if you flush it while sitting on it. because of that i never went to the toilet on the airplane till i found out it wasn't true. thanks mum.

wen

I used to believe that whenever i would use the toilet and flush it that i would get sucked down into the pipes. So i would run out f the bathroom right when iflushed and when my little brother started using the bathroom, i would always check to make sure that he didn't get flushed down, too.

Erin

when i was a wee one,i fell down the toilet and i still to this day think occasionaly that a monster will come up ,grab my butt and pull me under!

freeeeak

I used to hate flushing toilets. I had one over flow on me once. Ever since then I always thought everytime I would flush the toilet it would always over flow on me. It was scarey to me.

Julie