When I was little I used to think that hundreds of little spiders lived in the toilet and would come out and bite your butt as soon as you sat down to use the toilet. I would never sit directly on the toilet but would hold my self an inch above the seat so they couldn't reach me!

Anon

i used to believe that there is a shark in the toilet that would bite me if I sat to long on the toilet.Then I read on the one toilet and it sed Shires Cobra and then I thought there was an Cobra also in the toilet.

ToiletShark

When i was little ..er and sometimes i think about it still..on an episode of Mac Gyver i think...this woman had snakes come up outta her toilet and that vision never quite disappeared and i always used to check the toilet before i sat...still do sometimes *blush*

Anon

When I was 5 years old, my mom and grandmother took my sister and I on a trip to Disney World. On the flight to Disney World, I had to go to the bathroom. I asked my mom to walk me, but she said the bathrooms were to small for 2 people to fit, so i went by myself. Well, after i was done going to the bathroom, i went to flush the toilet...to my surprise, the toilet made a huge and very loud suckion noise. I got scared and tried to open the door...but it was STUCK! I began to scream VERY LOUD, and cry, i banged and kicked on the door until 3 flight attendants came to my rescue. To my surprise, everyone on the plane was looking my way with concern. Bottom line, I was afrain the toilet would suck me in! I'm married now, and i still stare at the toilet everytime it flushes.

Jennifer Bagnaschi

I was affriad of Toliets when I was a kid cause everytime I had to flash the toliet it made a loud nose and the nose would make me go death if I did't cover my ears....

ahhhh

When I was little, I asked my older sister what the flushing of the toilet was. She didn't give me a direct answer, but she told me never to be sitting on the toilet or have the lid open when you flush it. I became convinced that it was some sort of monster that would try to eat me, and then (I don't know how this part got into my head) I became convinced that if I made it past the toilet, the monster would come out of the bathroom closet. So I would do my stuff, close the lid, wash my hands, then flush the toilet and bolt for the door, making sure the closet door was closed.

It made me quicker in the bathroom.

Matatuana

A lot of people seem to have had the belief that if you didn't run out of the bathroom before the toilet was done flushing, a ghost/monster/vampire would appear. I did, too. I wonder where this sort of belief comes from?

adam

When i was little my dad would tell me that if i flushed the toilet i would kill all the fish in our fishtank, because the two were connected. I beleived this for a longt ime until my mom made my father tell me he was joking, i was still scared to flush so everytime i did i got a package of M&M's

Whitney

I used to always belived that my toilet had bombs in it because of the sounds that I heard after I flushed it. After I flushed, I'd always run to the room I was in before to get away from the explosion.

Anon

When I first sat on the toilet, I thought that i felt myself slip and I thought i was going to fall into the toilet and drown so i grabbed the toilet seat. I always made sure to grab the toilet seat when i went to the bathroom. it became a habit so i still did it even after i didn't believe that anymore. i finally stopped in the fourth grade.

Anon

When I was little, I used to believe that some creepy octopus would pop out of the toilet whenever I flushed it. So whenever I had to pee, I would flush the toilet ,and run out of the bathroom and into my room, jump onto my bed, and hide under the covers.

Anon

I used to be terrified of using the bathroom at night, because I believed that there was a witch lady in the mirror and if you looked at her she would find a way of killing you by morning. Also, if you sit completely on the toilet seat with no air gaps no matter how small you will get sucked down into the toilet and drown.

Jen the MC

i used to think that toilets had a claw in them and if i stayed on for too long the claw would grab my butt or something else..so i never pooped in the toliet...instead i pooped in the bath tub. keep in mind i was a young child, not a grown adult

the grim reeper

i had a terrible fear of flushing the toilet of the airplane becuz of the loud suction sound. i believed it was strong enough to suck me in and throw me out of the plane! i know it won't now, but i still hate the sound!

Lin Lyonene

when i was about 6 i saw aligators in the sewear(sp?) in cartoons and my mom would tell me that its connected to every toilet and so she said if i dont hurry up from using the bathroom the aligators would try to drag me down threw the hole thing by biting my butt.

nicole

i used to think anytime you took a dump at night that the turd would turn into some kind of monster and shove crap in your mouth until you turned into a turd yourself haunting anyone who dared to take a dump in the middle of the night.thats corrupted i was as a young child.

Judih

When I was little and until I was about 11 I always thought in hte toilets at K-Mart a dog or somehting was gonna eat me when I flushed so as soon as I hit the lever I ran as fast as I could I got alot of weird look and I also thought that at Wal-Mart I actually ran into hte wall a few times. I also belived at home if you used the toilet during a storm your butt would get electracuted or a monster or some odd creature would jump out and hurt me.

Umm too embarrased to say

When I was a small boy, I used to believe there were spiders in the toilets.

nicolas, a French student in 8th grade

I used to believe a snake would come out the hole in toilets. I watched before sitting.

Loïc, a French student in 8th grade