my dad told me i would turn into a prune if i stayed in the bathtub too long, i got scared.

Anon

When I was little I had an inexplicable fear of the loofah (which I called a yupby) in the bathroom and my cousins would chase me round the house with it making ghost noises...whoooooooo! As if that wasn't enough my mum used to tell me that if I wasn't good the yupby would come alive at night and get me

Rose

When I was three I would yell into the bathtub drain after taking my bath. I was convinced my father could hear me, and i would ask him all sorts of questions.

David

I used to believe that Dracula lived in the vent above the bathroom toilet and whenever I would turn on the fan he would jump out and suck my blood.

Anna

i used to believe after the bath, when u pulled out the plug and then the water sucked out, i'd get sucked down the drain too.
So i'd always hurry and get out of the room, before i hear that sucking noise.

belle

I used to believe that Mr. Bubbles lived under my bathtub

Deidre

Actually only a few years ago, I was still a pretty supersticios kid. It was right after 911. Of course, I would take a shower every day. But I learned that osama bin laden was the person that may have set up the 911 attack. I kept thinking that some guy in a turbin was behind my shower curtain, and any moment he would jump in my shower and get me. I remember being sooo afraid to get out of the shower, because I thought there was someone in the bathroom with me. I still get those weird feelings. Sometimes I check thecloset and look behind the curtain before I used the bathroom

Spazz

I used to believe there were shower monsters that lived in the shower but hid when there was water in the shower or bathtub they hid down the drain because they were alergic to water. My sister told me that i was lucky they hadn't killed me yet. I asked her why and she said because you don't sing when you go to the bathroom. So from then on I sang while going to the bathroom to keep the monsters having too much fun dancing to my music to eat me. Then whenever I went to someones house and had to use the bathrom I would ask them how many monsters were in their showers so i would know how loud I had to sing.

Danielle

There are usually only one drain in a bathtub - the one in the floor. Well, when I was little, the baths had two drains, the second one built-in above the floor one. So since it was always to dark, I used to believe there were rats living in there. Needless to say, I didn't bathe too close to it.

Doc

We have a bathtub that has a drain on the wall that has "wolverine" writen on the top of it. It has 2 bolts on the left and right side that looked like squinting eyes, and a nozzle in the middle that you pull down to drain the water. When I was 3-7 I thought that the thing was a wolverine, but it was sleeping, and if the water got too high, he would jump out of the wall and eat me. It scared the heck out of me when the water did get that high a couple times. I jumped out of the water and ran out of the room as fast as I could.

johnny

I used to think if I locked the door in the bathroom while using the toilet, something very terrible will happen and I will die without anyone knowing or helping because the door is locked. I didn't lock the bathroom door until I went to boarding school.

Annie Lo

This is actually about my bathtub. When I was 3-7 years old, we had a round lever on our wall that had "wolverine" writen on it because that was its companies name. It had 2 bolts on the sides of it that looked like eyes, with the slit in them to make it look like it was almost closed but sleeping, and a lever in the middle that you pulled down to drain the water. Well I always thought that there was a monster in our wall called wolverine and if the water got too high and reached him, he would wake up, his eyes would open (the bolts), and he would jump out and eat me. So for years I tried not to touch him a at all except to drain the water, which I thought he drank.

johnny

when i was small i used to believe that
snake could get out of the tap and eat me

joy

I used to believe that when you went into the bathroom, you had to sing the ABC's. At the end when you say "Next time wont you sing with me" I always asked my mom to sing with me because I thought you had to ask someone to sing with you.

A Lonely Babooshka.

When I took my shower, I thought bad spirits could arrive through the evacuation holes. So, I would put a plastic glass on it and put my foot on it. It was very handy to take a shower with on efoot on a plastic glass !!!

bebert, a French student in eighth grade

i was scared to be left in the tub by myself because i thought sharks would come out of the drain and eat me. and i also didnt want the water to get so dirty that i wouldnt be able to see it. i thought if i could see the drain that it wouldnt come out. finally one day i tryed looking in there when my mom caught me and told me there was nothing in there. i felt so stupid. i was about 5 or 6 when it happened.

Pauline

My brothers told me and my twin that when we were in the bath that there were lots of monsters in the plug hole waiting to attack uswhen we were in the bath therefore when we went in the bath wed squish up in 1 end if the bath and my mam could never understand why!!

Alison

I used to lock myself in the bathroom when small, and mix small amounts of face creams, aftershaves, toothpastes and shower gels together in a plastic pot. I somehow thought I could make a 'wonder potion' that could do everything. I imagined i was creating something important that my mum would love.

Lilly