My girlfriend used to believe that if she used the toilet downstairs in her house that rats would come up and bite her bum! A belief that eventually spread to all downstairs toilets.
Even to this day she will avoid using toliets that are downstairs.

Matt

Ok, I still kind of believe this, but I am afraid of toilets. Ever since I was little, I somehow got the idea that a hog's head lived in the toilet. If you've ever heard of the story "Old Raw Head", thats who it was living in the toilets. I always thought that Old Raw Head would come out and get me. I also thought Chucky was in my shower. lol.

Kathy

I used to believe that when you flushed the toilet it would explode if you were near it. Everytime I flushed I ran down the hall screeming and running for my life...i fell once and that is how I learned the truth

Ryan

when i was 6 i thought tarantula spiders could eat me so i had a fear of going to the toilet but sometimes i really need to go so i tried to pee real fast but i ended up peeing on the floor.

Anon

When I was very young, I was absolutely terrified of being locked in a public toilet. I thought I would be in there forever. I decided that if it ever happened to me, I would just crawl out under the door. The trouble is that many toilet doors go all the way to the bottom, so if I was ever in one of those, I wouldn't lock the door at all but just try and hold it shut with my foot, while I.....went as fast as I could. I'm 22 now and grew out of it years ago but I must admit if I'm in a toilet and can see plenty of space under the door, it still makes me feel relieved.

Miranda

when i was yunger i believed someone was down in the toilet and they would reach up and grab me. it scared me to death and i hated going to the bathroom

browny

i blame ghostbuster's for this: there was a ghost toilet that had teeth or something and for some reason that meant that the toilet would explode when i flushed it. so everytime i was ready to flush, i would open the door, hit the handle and run as fast as i could to get away just in case.

sara

When I was younger and watched Look Who's Talking 2 and saw that the toliet came alive I was scared for years after that. I honestly believed if I someone made the toliet mad it would bite my tushy off! My Grandfather also told me if I didn't go potty in time a snake would come up and bite my butt so I always looked between my legs to make sure nothing came up to get me. Embarassing.

Jessi

i thought that if u turned on the faucet while the toilet was flushing, you'd get the
"dirty"water

i still kinda belive

Steph(13)

When i was about 6 or 7, my dad told me in Austrailia massive spiders lived under the toilet seat and would bite you when you sat down. I was afraid to go to the toilet for ages. Even though i don't live in Austrailia!! lol..

the freeky one

When I was younger I used to believe that when you sit on the toilet a shark would sometimes come up and bite your butt.

Nick

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

Automatic toilets used to scare the crap out of me! Whever i knew the toilet i was using was automatic, I'd either refuse to use it or jump far away from it when i was done. i was convinced it was trying to swallow me and it would if i remained on the toilet.

Gwen

I always lived at the ground floor & the washroom window was a bit low than usual, I used to beleive that a long nailed baggar will grab me from it ask for alms. I was so terrified that I never went to the loo in the night & rarely when I became unbearable I pissed my bed & roll an empty glass by my bed side to make it seem that I had a water spill.
witty aint I.

Papilio

when i was about 4 i thought there was a witch in the toilet and that her sister was behind the towel on the wall. So i went as fast as i could didnt wash my hands, turn out the light, andi very rarly flushed. I still kinda belive it and im a little afraid to go at night.

i feel stupid

I used to be absolutely terrified of toilets. My room when I was little had a built in bathroom with no door. Then, one day, I saw a news report about how a python came up through a lady's toilet and strangled her son to death. I would ALWAYS make sure the toilet was closed and often cried if the lid was open...

Tara

When I was seven my sister convinced me that there were trolls in the sewer, and that when you went to use the bathroom they would come up and go inside you7 eat all your organs out.And that they would come out the shower and take over your body and kill all the people that were black.

Krissy

I used to believe that the toilet was a beacon for aliens or monsters or something, during the night. During the day it was okay, but when I had to get up in the middle of the night to go pee, it was flush-and-RUN!

Anonymous

Once when I was little, I went to the washroom, and when I flushed, water came pouring out. I quickly ran to my mom and told her what happened. After that my dad and mom fixed everything up, however I was pretty scared to flush the toilet for a while, or I would flush and run away quickly.

~Flusher~