When I was younger I used to believe that little crabs lived in the toilet, so every time I went to the bathroom I talked to them and asked them to please not pinch me!

Rachel

Being the youngest of four children, I was the object of much cruelty. The worst was when my brother, who is 7 years older, told me that there is a witch in the toilet. He told me that she will come out to eat me if I flush. I still wonder if she's in there...

Witchy Woman

In 3rd grade a friend brought a large garter snake to school for Science. It escaped and went down the urinal in the boys bathroom. From then on I knew the snake was going to come up the toilet when I was sitting on it. I would do my business in record time and jump off!

T.K.

I used to think that rapists put cameras through the toilet pipes and watched you while you peed! I always went to the bathroom really fast so that they couldn't see me and come to my house to take me away because I was a girl.

Anon

I used to believe that there was someone in the toilet and there was a hand that would grab me and pull me into the toilet. So everytime i went to the bathroom, i kinda squatted over the toilet so i could run out of the bathroom when i was done. lol.

tipsy

I had the same fear of toilets that (apparently) many people had; that is, I thought they were an embodiment of evil.

But I have an excuse. When I was about four, I had this really painful ear infection; thus, my ears were really sensitive, and everything sounded like it was about 5 times louder than it should be. Cue me using a toilet on an airplane for the first time. Now, for those of you who haven't flown on an airplane, when the toilet flushes, it creates suction to get rid of the... matter. Otherwise, if there's turbulence... well, you do the math. However, this suction makes a rather loud noise; to my sensitive ears, it felt like my head was going to explode. Thus my irrational fear of AIRPLANE toilets; I'm cool with the normal kind.

To this day, I make sure to wash my hands, unlock the door, etc., so I can come bursting out of the door the moment I flush the toilet.

LordNyax89

When i was little i was deathly afraid of the noise our toilet would make. So i always ran out of the bathroom as fast as i could because i thought a fish would come out of our toilet. Well im not afraid of our toilet anymore but i do open the door before i flush any toilet.

*Katie*

I used to think that the Devil lived in the toilet and would be afraid to go to the bathroom, and when I finally would go I would constantly look down in the toilet bowl to see if the Devil was there ready to grab me and drag me down to Hell.

BobbieMac

when i was little i believed that if i ever was near the toilet when it got flushed a giant beast would come up bite my butt and suck me down with it!

anonymous

I used to believe that dead fish would dance around the toilet bowl after my older sister said they did, i never went to the toilet for days so she says.

Aaron "scared of horses" Dalgarno

I used to believe that if I stayed on the toilet too long, the toilet witch would come and pull me down the toilet by the bottom. That got me off the loo lickity-split!

Jennie

I used to believe if you flushed but still sat on the toilet for a while or didn't get up quick enough a hand would reach out and grab me. So after I was done I would run out the door screaming...my mom thought I was crazy!

Screaming Toilets

One day I heard my mom talking to her friend about snakes coming out of the toilet...and when i heard that every time i had to pee i had to check the toilet and flush it a couple times to make sure that the snake wasnt gonna get me.

Natasha

When i wuz little i believed that when u flushed the toilet, it let ghosts out, and for the longest time i used to either not flush, or flush and run away frantically. But finally i came to the conclusion that there had to be some way to keep the ghosts in. and u kno those fans u turn on in bathrooms that like filter the air or somn?
Well, i thot that if i turnd it on while i flushed the toilet, it wood suck all the ghosts up. stupid, i know.

and the sad thing is i still turn on the fan wen i walk into the bathroom. i guess it jus became a habit. lol

ghost flusher

When the toilet flushed i used to think that a monster was going to jump out and eat me so whenever i went to the toilet i ran to my mom and gave her a hug!!

Zac!

when i was 7 i used to belive that there was a big hairy spider down the toilet and if i sat on there for to long it would come and bite me

Anon

i used to beliecve that if i stayed in the bathroom too long after the toilet flushed, then you would get sucked in it. i would run out of the bathroom, and after it was done flushingf, i would go back and wash my hands.

Anon

When I was a little girl I always was afraid of people watching me. I was so afraid of going to the bathroom because I believed that the people in the sewer would swim up into the toilet and see me pooping/peeing on them.

Jessica A.

I used to believe that when I flushed the toilet Basil Brush would come out and get me! This has left me with an unusual fear of toilet flushes....

Gem

I used to beleive their was a hideous man in the toilet, and every time i Flushed I ran to the first big person till the noise stopped. I also had a Rain man.

Lucy