when i was little I used to believe that when i pooped or pee, that some underground monster would eat it. After all who knows at the age of 3 where your potty goes, but anyways if the monster didn't get any food for a while i thought that he would reach through and grab the person on the potty and pull them through.... It took me a while to use the toilet

Alicia

I was a terrible older sibling. When my brother was 4 and I was about 6, I told him, for no reason, that when he flushed the toilet he would wake up all the monsters in the house and they would come and get him. Later I saw him running from the bathroom after flushing, with his hands over his ears! I felt really bad at the time, but now, 13 years later, its really funny.

Anon

I really think my older brother had it in for me. When I was little he told me that it was OK to pee into the toilet, but if I pooped a monster would come out of the toilet and pull me down into it. I really believed him. When I had to do the "number 2" I couldn't think of anywhere else to go besides behind the couch in the living room. I absolutely feared the toilet monster. My parents would always catch me in the middle of the act, and they worried about me for weeks. It got to the point where I would be behind the couch and my mother would say, "What are you doing?" and I would grunt, "Nnnnnooooothing" One day, I finally told my mom what my brother said...and, well, you can imagine how long he was grounded.

anon

When I was little, I used to watch this cartoon called "Cow and Chicken". Basically one episode delt with cooties( eww) and they said you can get cooties from the toilet seat. Ironically (spelling?), it wasn't the cow or the chicken that said that, it was the grown up lady..... Let's just say I waited to take a shower to go to the bathroom....

Spooky

For some reason, I had convinced myself that monsters lived in our toilets. So whenever I went to the bathroom, I had to be out of the bathroom and a certain distance away (e.g. down the hall, or in another room) before the toilet stopped making the "flushing noise", and if I wasn't the monsters would eat me.

Ohio...

I was scared to use the "big potty" because I thought that a snake or something would bite my butt as I used it.

Lina

When my second born son was about 3 and was potty training he dookie downed a huge long poo and he stood up and looked in the toilet and started crying really really hard. He yelled to his dad and I to come and make the sneak (he couldn't say snake) go away. He refused to go poo after that for the longest time because he thought snakes were in the toilet.

Traci

When I was little, I was tarrified when the the toilet flushed. I would think that a monster would come out. So, when ever I flushed the toilet I would run full speed out of the bathroom.

Anon

For some reason I got the idea that a lobster lived in the toilet and would pinch my butt with its sharp giant claws. I was afraid to sit on the toilet and would try to be as fast as I could when going to the bathroom. I must have been about 6 or 7 at this time.

The really strange thing is that I had very little exposure to seafood growing up, so I have no idea where this belief came from. I see I'm not the only one who thought something scary lived down there, though...

kitten13

I used to believe when i was young that there where monsters in the toilet. I would never have went to the bathroom alone, only if someone waited with me until i had finished the business. This caused problems at night time, i was so afraid to go to the bathroom on my own, never mind going in the dark. I sorted this out by using my room as my personal bathroom, so much to my parents digust.

Bob Mason

I used to believe that if you used the toilet during a storm, lightning was sure to come through the pipes and electrocute you through your rear.

Anon

When I was small and just starting to use a proper toilet, I had a terrible fear of falling down it in case I got flushed away!

KtW

when I was young, I used to believe that If I go to the toilet, ghost appear at the night.
my friends tell me that the ghost ask me"which do you want red or white paper?" so I cant go to the toilet every night.

apple

I wasn't completly pottey trained 'till I was 3 1/2. I was fine with peeing, but pooping hurt, and u were on the toilet so long I was afraid a bee would sting my butt. Because of this I was afraid to poop and so when I was 3 me and my family were at a restraunt and I stood up growning. My mother asked if I had to go to the bathroom and I said, "no I just gota say Wooooooff!"

R.L.T.

I am in absolute shock that I'm not the only one who beleived a Vampire lived in the toilet! I have absolutely no idea where this beleif came from, but I used to run as fast as I could after I flushed because I thought the Vampire would wake up and get me!

Susy

In first grade I would always be afraid to flush the toilet because I thought that was how robbers got in to your house because one time my friend had said someone broke into her house after she'd used the bathroom.

Girlie

In kindergarten I was afraid to go wtith the door shut because I thought I would be locked in and sucked down the toilet to the world of Poo.

Girlie

When I was very little I watched an episode of those funny video shows where they pulled a snake out of a toilet... this combined with my belief that all of the plumbing in the house and city and world was connected led me to believe that at any time, most likely when you're sitting on it, a snake or alligator of some sort could come up out of the toilet and bite your butt. And to think I made fun of my brother for thinking he'd get sucked down the drain in the tub.

Angry Sar

I used 2 believe that every time i went to my grandads house if I used the toilet there was evil monkeys that followed me upstairs through the water pipes and if i flushed the toilet they would jump up and bite my bum!
IF my mum realise i hadnt flushed it she used to shut at me, so i flushed it and ran down stairs so fast!

monkey bum