When I was little, my stepfather used to have the game "Resident Evil" and he kept the Playstation in the living room. I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet in the middle of the night, the zombies would come out and get me. I'm still afraid of flushing in the middle of the night. The only difference is that now, I have the courage to flush.

Anon

When I was young my best friend and next door neighbor told me that when you flush the toilet an evil witch comes out and sucks you down. I believed this for a really long time, longer than i'd like to say. Even now, if I'm alone in the house and go to the bathroom I leave the door open so i can run out faster. I'm 20.

Kathleen

I used to think when you went the bathroom the toilet would suck you down. I would do my business then shut the lid, stand on the toliet and flush it. I also thought farts were actually green and people could see when you fart.

Jessica

Not sure why, but, I believed everytime I flushed the toilet Captin Hook would come up, out of the toilet, and get me. So, I would flush the toilet and sprint out of the bathroom.

Ashley

When I was a kid I was afraid to use a pay toilet at the laundromat because I thought if you stayed in there too long, a giant pinball-type plunger would shove you out with you pants down around your ankles.

Ron

I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet at night after everyone was asleep it would eat me and there would be no one there to bear witness to my death.

Nellie

I used to believe that whenever I flushed the toilet at night, ghost would come out of it, so whenever I flushed I had to run back to my room.

Anon

I used to believe that if I spent too long peeing, germs from the toilet would travel back up the stream and make me sick.

Dave

As a kid (5 or 6 years old), I used to believe that if toilet water splashed from the bowl and touched you as you where flushing, you would get herpes or some nasty infection and die. I would gingerly reach over and smack the knob, run out of the bathroom at light speed and slam the door.

Moth - the other white meat

When i was young i would run out of the bathroom whenever i flushed the toliet because i thought i would be sucked down into it if i did not get out of the room before it finished. It took me until i was much older to be able to stay through the entire flush.

Bubbles

i used to belive that a shark would come up the drain and attack me whenever i flushed the toilet so i would always open the door and get ready to run before flushing.

Zoe :)

When I was very young I was positively convinced that flushing the toiltet would unleash an evil genie upon me. As such, on the rare occasions that I did flush, I'd race out the door and slam it behind me.

Hannah

When I was young, I thought that there was a scorpion-like creature that lived in the toilet plumbing so I spent as little time possible sitting on the toilet.

KatieB

I used to believe that if you didn't get out of the bathroom and turn off the light before the toilet finished flushing at night (night meaning if I was already in bed), the whole room would flush down and you would die.
I'm still terrified to go to the bathroom at night.

Anon

I used to believe there was an entire family living down the toilet and that they ate and drank what we put in the toilet, using the toilet paper as napkins.
I was fascinated by the thought - and terrified! I thought that if I flushed the toilet, I would anger them for some reason.
Most of the times, I would not flush, and the grown-ups got quite angry with me.

Katie

When I was around five, I caught a glimps of a scene from a scary movie from the eighties where something came up from a toilet and grabbed the girl sitting on it.

For a very long time I thought that was possible, especially after hearing about snakes turning up in toilets in FL.

Anon

I used to believe that if I didn't finish my duties in the bathroom in under 10 seconds (walking in, closing the door, sitting down, using the toilet, grabbing the toilet paper, etc.), something bad would happen. Each time that something bad was different, like something coming out of the toilet, or something popping out from behind the shower curtains.

Dominique

I used to believe that when you flushed the toilet, you had 5 seconds to get out of the bathroom and onto a piece of furniture, or a monster would come and get you. A few years later, I saw some alien movies and thought if I sat on the toilet too long, an alien hand would reach up and grab me from inside the toilet bowl. Needless to say, I would stare at the water EVERY time I went to the bathroom, just in case I saw something move in there.

Imaginitive little child