i saw a commercial that a roach pops out from the toilet and bites ur ass, ever since then, i always check the toilet before and after i go to the bathroom!

roach-bitting freak

I was up at the lake when I was about 3 years old, and had to use an out house. I had some how gotten it in my head that an alligator lived in the toilet and was waiting to grab me when I sat down. I was so scared of falling in the toilet that I had to get my dad to hold me up (I wouldn't even touch the toilet), and I cried the whole time.

Anon

I went to visit a friend as a small child, and while I was there I saw part of a horror movie where a person in a bathtub got turned into a red hand that chased people. I came home so terrified that I didn't want to go anywhere near the bathroom for any reason without my mom with me, I was sure that red hand was going to drag me into the pipes- through the bathtub, down the toilet-

Anon

I don't know why I believed this... but when I was being potty-trained, I was terrified of the Toilet Monster. I thought if I didn't go #1 or #2 then he would be hungry and would get mad and eat me! I was so scared of NOT being able to go, that I totally avoided the bathroom. Curses to whomever told me that!

Sunnie

Around the age of five or six i used to beleive that as i was peeing in the toilet a single file of about 7 hooded and stooped monsters kind of like the ones from the film the dark crystal were travelling extremely fast around the world coming to get me and wouldn't stop until i had finished peeing, flushed and got out of the room as fast as i could. To this day it makes me nervous to be in a bathroom whilst the toilet is flushing. what a creepy little guy i was.

Mitch

I used to be scared that when I flushed the toilet the water would go everywhere instead of where it was supposed to go. I believed this because at school one of the boys said that that happened in the boys' toilets.

Anon

mine is sorta like kes but rather there was a really skinny man in the toilet who i called the U-bend man who would reach up and drag me down to replace him... i know he doesn't exist but whenever i remember that, i get really nervous about using the bathroom even though i'm in my older teens

a

My sister told me once of a rat coming out of someone's toilet (dunno if it was true) but then I was afraid of a sewer rat coming out of the toilet and biting my butt when I was on the toilet. I also though that I wasn't safe from the rat until I was out of the bathroom and down the hall before the flush was completed. I was a weird little cretin.

Kels

When I was 5-6, I saw the cover of a horror movie where a goblin was sitting on top of the toilet. From then on i could never flush the toilet because I was scared the goblin was going to come out once I flushed it so I would run out of the bathroom right after I was done.

Kevin

When i started school i went to the toilet and the i flushed it and it was really loud and i thought it was a dinosarer roaring so i never flush the toilet till i was in the 5th grade

Anon

I used to worry that when i was on the toilet, a little submarine periscope would pop up and look at my bum! I'm still nervous about that sometimes and i'm 18!

Jordan

i used to believe that when i used the tolit a snake will come out and bite your butt. lol

Anon

i remember .. when i was 4 years old my brother had told me that there was a blue water person hiding in the toilet just to make sure i asked my older sister(who is older than him) and she said it was true, they had planned it all along
i use the get my older sister to come with me and watch me because i got scared so much that the water person would grab my behind and pull me into the toilet

momo

When I was a kid, my cousin told me that if you sat on the toilet for too long at her house before or after you "did your business" a hand would come up and grab onto your butt. I still worry about that happening sometimes. I think it happened in a movie or something.

Sara

I used to believe that evil leprechauns lived in the u-bend. I went to the bathroom as fast as I could and close the seat cover before they could come up and bite my butt.

Shannon

I grew up in the city. I was never afraid of the boogeyman in the woods. Instead, I was afraid of kidnappers.
In kindergarten, it was a long walk down a generally deserted hallway to the bathroom. I believed that if I flushed the toilet, the kidnapper would know what stall I was in. As a result, I never flushed when I peed at school.
I now believe that it's really inconsiderate to not flush a public toilet after using it. I'm glad I've learned something in the last 25 years.

Phoebos

i used to believe if you sat on the toitlet long enough, captin hook from the movie "hook"(w/ robin williams) would come out of the hole and poke me in the butt. i still get scared today.

scardy pants

up until i was about 4 or 5 i apparently used to believe that a monster lived down the toilet. This, i think, ame from my brother, telling me that if i sat on the toilet for ages something would bite my bum...so i assumed that there was a monster down there.....It must have been hard for my mum to cope with it really.....

Anon

When I was little my sister told me that if you sit in the toilet at midnight a hand would come up and grab your butt and pull you down the s bend. Needless to say I always waited until morning to pee.

J. W.

When I was like 4 me and my grandmother were in a bathroom at Kmart and when I flushed the toliet it overflowed and there was water all over the floor. Until I was like 10 I was scared to flush the toliet. ha

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