i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain

blake

I used to believe that the sink hole down my bathtub inhabitited the good witch, whereas my best friend's bathtub's drain inhabitited the wicked witch. I slept over at my best friends house once, i had a bath and sat right up the other end to the drain hole. Once the water went down the drain, i was so scared that the wicked witch was going to suck me down with the water i cried.

Rae

I used to believe that if i still sat in the bathtub when my mother pulled the stopper out i could flow down like the water. it was a big fear for me!:D

helga

When i was younger i used to believe that if you were still standing in the bath when you took out the plug that you would get sucked down the plug hole with the water. I still make sure that im out of the bath before i take out the plug.

Steph

When I was aged probably three to six, i used to think that the noise when you take the plug out of the bath (that wooshing, shrieking sound as the water goes down) was the noise of ghosts and skeletons coming up the pipes to get me - I guess it let the water out, and let the ghosts in. I was terrified when my mum or dad would leave me alone in the bath and say "when you're done, just pull the plug out." I would get out of the water, kneel on the edge of the tub, yank the plug out as fast as I could and then sprint naked and screaming into my bedroom and hide until I heard all the water had gone down and the scary noise had stopped, so I could go back and get a towel.

I still really don't like that sucking, shrieking, wooshing noise when I take the plug out of the bath and try to get out of the bathroom before it ends!

anon

I used to think that when your in the bathtub the drain sucks you up and so I would of backed up when the water was draining

Anon

I used to believe that you could get sucked down the drain while you were taking a bath,and I used to cry when my big sister would put her fingers near the drain and pretend to want to fall through.

Christina

When I was younger I had this dream that I me my sister and cousin were in a bathtub and one by one they got sucked into the drain.After that I always got out of the bathtub before i drained the water and i always but a rag over the drain while i was bathing...although now i know that wont happen i still go through the same routine.

Marlee

When me and my sister were kids, my dad used to sing us that song by Cream called "A Mother's Lament", and if you've heard it, you know it's a rather sad song, in a funny way, about a mother who turns her back on the tub for just a second so that she could get the soap, only to turn back around and find that her baby was so tiny, he was sucked down the plug.

Needless to say, we were afraid of going down the "pluggole".

Erin

When I was six, my friend told me that her aunt got her intestines sucked out by sitting on a bath tub drain while it was draining.

I thought of sitting on the drain to see if it was real; i chickened out.

Lola

I used to believe that if I let the water out of the tub while I was still in it that I would go down the drain with the water

Dan

I remember a song called splish splash by
Charlie Drake at the end he pulls out the plug
and is sucked down the plughole .my mum told
me that the same thing would happen to me if
I pulled the plug while I was still in the bath .it
terrified me I was only about 5 at the time
KENNY

Anon

When I was little I hated the noise of the water running down the plughole in the bath would suck me in.

Flick

I took the fear of getting sucked down the plughole to the extreme . . . My father convinced me that I would be sucked down the plughole when I was about 3 years old. Afterwards, I wouldn't sit down in the bathtub for a year . . . I was a very gullible child and my mother threatened to kill my father after the incident.

Anon

When I was like 2/3 my sister and I used to go into the bathroom while my mum was having a bath and sit and talk to her. I remember her telling us that if the plug was pulled out she would go down the plughole.
Well ofcourse she pulled out the plug and slowly slid deeper into the bath; my sister and I went hysterical screaming and trying to hold her up screaming we loved her and crying.
My mother used to stop when we were really upset, she said it was to test how much we loved her. I remember being really really upset, scared and traumatised thinking the plug-hole was going to take my mummy away.
I was always scared of the plug hole for a long while after that.

Shea

I used to belive a monster lived down the plughole in the bath and when you pulled the plug out he would grab you and drag you down the plughole and eat you so i'd jump out of the bath as quickly as possible or make someone else pull out the plug later....

MacKenzie

That if I stayed in the bath to long i turned into a prawn (not prune) and I'd fall through the plughole, mum & dad had to force meinto bath for months

Anon

I used to believe that if someone pulled the plug on the drain while I was in the bath, I would go down it. So everytime I was done taking a bath I would hop out really quickly. If my mother pulled the plug on the drain while I was in it, I would start crying and screaming for her to get me out. I really thought that my body would get sucked down that little hole just like the water, and I would be gone forever.

Sonia

My mom used to tell me I had to get out of the bath before pulling the plug otherwise I'd get sucked down the plughole. I believed this until I was 9 ...

JigsWithoutWoodstock

Being sucked down the bathtub... My Grandmother once told me when I was 4 or 5 that if I didn't finish all the food on my plate I would end up so thin I'd get sucked down the bathtub hole when someone pulled the plug. It didn't actually make me finish my food but I ended up being really scared of going down with the gurgling water at the end of my bath!

MoniMay