i used to believe that my toilet had a camera in it, that would watch me. no wonder it took me so long tp potty train!

traumatised by toilets

My mom once told me a story about how in florida alligators got get into the sewers and stuff. So for years I was afraid to sit on the toliet and I would constantly be looking down afraid that one would bite my butt!

Afraid of alligators in Ohio

When I was a child I was terrified to flush the toilet, as I thought the shower would turn on and soak me. I remember using the toilet, washing my hands, opening the door of the bathroom, then flushing the toilet and running out of the room as quick as I could before the shower could turn on.

Mojo!

When I was really little I was always worried about going to the bathroom for 3 reasons;
1. the booger-monster would come out of the toilet and steal my butt.
2. If i flushed the toilet aliens would take over the world and steal my brother.
3. A baby would come out of my butt.

I was a twisted child. Amazingly, I still am.

Nelanie

when i was little and kind of still do have this paranoia that when i go to the bathroom in an aquareum that some type of water creature is going to pop out of the toliet and bit me in my butt. i always make sure i have gone to the the bathroom before i visit an aquareium

Anon

i used to be so afraid of toilets. i literally believed that captain hook lived in our toilet, and he would come up the drain and poke me in the bottom with his hook. In order to keep from getting peed on, he had an umbrella around his wrist and he would just have the hook sticking out the top. how wierd...where in the world would I have gotten that from?

liz

When I was little, my Mother had a hard time getting me potty trained and couldn't figure out the reason. It was later to be revealed that I watched the movie, "Nerds" and saw a snake coming out.

Samantha

I was pretty freaked out by the whole bathroom in general when I was little. I could never go to the bathroom without the shower curtain completely open. The linen closet door had to be completely closed. The weirdest thing I would do was cover the hole/drain in toilet bowl with toilet paper before I would sit down to go. So there were little squares of toilet paper floating neatly in the middle of the toilet water. I guess I was convinced that something could come up and get me and (of course!) the toilet paper could keep that from happening. Obviously my theory was "if I can't see it, it isn't there". What an idiot!

Tonya

When I was in the first grade, my friend Sam and I were terrifed of the 'booeyman' that we thought lived in the toliet. While we were at school, we always flushed and then ran out of the bathroom. One time, I flushed, and was about to run out when I relized that Sam wasn't behind me. I got really nervous when she didn't answer me. "Sam.....Sam? .....SAM!" I screamed her name really loud and then ran out of the bathroom, thinking she had been kidnapped by the booeyman. (Turns out, she was hiding in her stall to scare me. ^___^) She still hasn't let me live that one down. (:

Sarah

I had this irrational fear of flushing toilets- like something scary would come up out of the toilet upon flushing. I would use the bathroom, flush, and quickly close the lid and run to the safety of my bed, jump in and get completely under the covers till the toilet stopped making noise.

Emily

I used to believe that if i put the toilet covers over the toilet crabs would come and bite my tushy because my older cousin told me that

Sydney

I used to think that when I flushed the toilet, if I didn't run I would get sucked down with everything else.

Marci

I used to believe that when you went poo in the toilet that Freddy was waiting inside and wuld reach up and scrape the poo from your bottom. I was afraid to use the bathroom and to this day never told my parents why.
I think it had something to do with the movie Ghoulies. LOL

Scared s***less

When I was little I thought that if I sat on the toilet while it flushed I'd go with it. I also used to be scared that if I sat on the toilet when my dad had forgotten to put the lid back down I'd go in and drown

TLK_

I used to believe that ghosts lived in an old apartment building in the toilet, and if I flushed the toilet they would get angry and attack me!

blobbo-3000

I used to belive, if you flushed the toilet and it smelled bad a poo tornado would take you in the toilet.

Kyle

My step brother told me about the toilette monkeys and that they would come up out of the toilette and tickle your butt. I never wanted to sit on the toilette so I used to try standing up.

Megan

There is a stain from toilet cleaner on the seat of our toilet. When I saw it, I thought it was poisonous, so I was careful not to sit on it. I've done that subconciously since. 0_o

Kariia

When i was younger i would sometimes watch the show " Are you afraid of the dark?". I vividly remembered an episode where a monster come's out of the toilet. From then on i would run out if the bathroom after i flushed the toilet regadless of where i was.

Erin~

When I was little and we used to have family reunions, we always had them in this old creepy looking cabin at the park. The bathrooms were downstairs and the lightbulbs were always burned out. For some reason, there were only urinals. So whenever I had to go to the bathroom, my mom would take me down there. The first time I saw the "weird potties", I freaked and refused to sit on them, convinced that they would eat my butt. So my mom always had to walk me all the way to the other side of the park to use the "safe potties"

jasonchic