i was afraid to sit on the toilet because i thought a werewolf lived under there and would claw your butt if you sat down

Anon

I remember my mom used to flush spiders or other bugs that she killed down the toilet. I always avoided using the toilet she put the bug down for a while because I thought that the dead bug mysteriously floated back up and would bite your butt!

anon

When I was little I used to believe that lobsters lived in the toilet, and that one day I would have to go to the bathroom and there would be a lobster ready to pinch my butt.

Kelly Grace

When I was little I didn't like the toilets at parks and campgrounds that didn't have plumbing and didn't flush. I thought that there were dead birds inside the toilet and that they were nasty. I still hate those toliets. I call them dead bird toilets.

Anon

when I was 8 I use to think that everytime I flushed the toilet a monster would come out and get me and now that i'm nine I still think it!

person that is soooooo (1000 more 0's here) weird

I was a wierd kid so I had a lot of wierd notions in my head. I am happy to say I still have a good imagination.

Because of all of those "Bloody Mary will get you if you say her name three times into the mirror in the bathroom" stories, I somehow translated that into the flush for the toilet being the cue for the ghosts to come out and attack you. I often ran out of the bathroom and down the hall to where everyone else was saying "Ha! not this time." Everyone stared at me like I was nuts...I think they may have been right.

Meg

When I was younger, I would never put my feet on the ground when I was on the toilet because I was afraid that ants would come and put potions on my feet to kill me. I was a disturbed child.

Anon

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

I used to believe when I sat on the toilet if I sat for too long that a spider would come up and pull me in. So as you can guess I was terrified of going to the bathroom and had to hover and keep turning round to check whether it was coming.

Anon

i used to be afriad of sitting on the toilet while flushing it because i thought that snakes would come up and bite me in the ass.

Anon

My biggest fear of the toilet when I was younger was that if I ate something good like meat, it would exit my body, enter the toilet, and a crocodile would smell it and snap my bottom right off from underneath me.

Sana

I use to believe there was a monster in the toilet that could come out when I flushed so after doing my business I always washed my hands first then flushed and made a run for it.

:-P

When little, after seeing the movie of IT the clown, I got this horrible fear to the toilet. I imagined that when sat down on the toilet, IT would stretch out his hand and pull me through the plumbing. Once, my sister had to make me company because I was so afraid of it, that I wanted not to go unless she came with me.

gabriel

I used to think that if I didn't leave the bathroom after the toilet was done flushing, the toilet water would flood and there was a magic wall that prevented the water from going out of the room. Needless to say, I figured out that it wasn't true, but I was still in the habit of running away from the room before the flushing was stopped. Now I'm out of the habit.

Xami

...that the Wicked Witch of the West (saw The Wizard of Oz too young, apparently) would come swirling out of the toilet to grab me when I flushed. I still have scars on my knees from falling all over myself, madly exiting whatever building I was in at the time, school included =P

Anon

I used to think that when I flushed the toilet, as the water was swirling around, a puppet like boy/creature in a sailors suit was swirling up to GET me! and i had to run to a room with other people before it stopped flushing! :)

Sarah

I used to believe if you peed after someone else peed and didn't flush, the toilet would blow up. So I would have to flush the toilet before going, which lots of times ended in me peeing myself waiting for it to all go down.

not telling

I used to believe that you had to put the toilet seat down before you flushed it. I used to think that if I saw the water being flushed down the toilet it was going to suck me down there as well!! Somehow lol!! And I'm still scared of those automatic flushers that you get in airports where you have to put your hand near it and the toilet flushes automatically, it really freaks me out!!

Sarah

I used to believe I had 25 seconds to use the bathroom before a monster ate my butt. So I would pull down pants & start the count down. From start to flush I had to be done in 25 seconds. I think this led to a life full of constipation.

Juls

Umm anyone ever been in the horror section of Blockbuster and seen the cover of the cheesy horror movie called Ghoulies? Yeah, it wasn't so cheesy when I was a kid, and after I saw that you better believe my butt was hovering over that toilet for months. No way was I going to get attacked by the ghoulie in my toilet.

K.S.