i used to believe that after you flushed the toilet you had to get out of the bathroom as fast as you could or a man would crawl out of it and pull you in with him. until i moved into a new house (and i'm not sure why this is when it stopped) i had to wash my hands in the kitchen sink because i was too scared to stay in the bathroom for too long.

Terror Spice

I used to think if you didnt get up before flushing the toilet would eat you...

Anon

When I was about 3 until I was about 9 I thought that if I sat on the toilet a crab would come up and pinch both of my butt cheeks. After that I would take about 5 second bathroom breaks. Everyone was amazed how I would get out so fast!

Lindsay

i used to be afraid that every time i used an outhouse, a spider would crawl up through the hole and bite me on the butt. i was also afraid of getting bitten on the butt by a snake whenever i had to pee in the woods.

emma the toilet monster

I used to believe that a huge snake would crawl up the toilet and bite me on the bum... i was terrified of the toilet until i was about 9! But the worst part is that there aren't any snakes in my country!

Scared of snakes

I used to believe that when I flushed the toilet the lucky charms man would come out and eat me.

Anon

I used to belevie if i flushed the toilet in the last sstall at school three time in a row, an evil ghost would come out and bite you, and then you'd die when you turn 13!! My friend told me it happened to his great great grandpa!And I thought it was real

Carinne

I used to believe that if you flushed the toilet without feeding it, it would flood your house and the pipes would explode. So I used to get a LOONNNG piece of toilet paper, stand back, and let the toilet slowly eat it up. XD

Wugnut

When i was in grade four me and my friends believed that there was a man stuck in the toilet because when ever you would flush the toilet the "swoosh" sounds in the girls toilet kind of sounded like "helpoosh meeee"

So instead of using the bathroom we would have to hold it

story:But once my friend really needed to go so she ran into the boys bathroom!!!!

Anon

I still belive that the toilet monster is real, and so I wash my hands before i go, then I flush and run with my ass hanging put then pull my pants up in my room.

BIGHEADsmallvoice

i was scared of flushing the toilet when i was young because i thought water would shoot out and that i'd drown in the water

Anon

My older sister told me [mind you I was in 3rd grade] that If I went to the bathroom a monster would come out of the toliet and try to pull me in or eat my butt. So whenever I would use the bathroom I would constantly lean up and check just to make sure no monsters were coming...lol :)

Megan :D

I used to believe that when you flushed the toilet, a GIANT UGLY SCARY sea monster would come out and eat me....this was because of the sewer gator..........EVIL GATOR!!!!!!

Matty

I used to beleive that the public toilets(that were really loud when u flushed), were always going to flood, and id be trapped inside the stall. So, for 3 years i would flush and run out as fast as i could.

Anon

i used to think that when you went to the bathroom after you flushed it a creature would come up from the toilet and eat you "waste" so i would run out of the bathroom the second i flused in fear of beinf eaten.

haha

:)

I used to beleive that if you flushed the toilet that it would explode and all the water would shoot out.

Michelle

When I was in elementary school I thought whenever you flushed the toiled a monster would come out and get everyone at school. I only believed this at school, I guess because the "woosh" sound. So from grades 1-4 i would only go in the bathroom when no one was in there and then go to the bathroom and not flush. Or I would go to the bathroom, finish, open the door, flush the toilet and run like Hell!!!

Amber

I was terrified of using the toilet or taking a shower for the longest time because of the Goosebumps episode with the talking dummy. The reason: towards the end of teh show, the dummy was in the bathroom air duct and released some sort of green gas that made the person in there turn into a dummy.
Like many others with bathroom fears, I would perform many flush-and-runs until the age of 11, along with record breaking showers.

Still slightly afraid

when i was little, ever since i saw the movie HOOK,
i thought that when I'd sit on the toilet, Captain Hook would poke me in the butt with his hook then drag me down there with him.

Dana