My girlfriend used to believe that if she used the toilet downstairs in her house that rats would come up and bite her bum! A belief that eventually spread to all downstairs toilets.
Even to this day she will avoid using toliets that are downstairs.

Matt

Before flushing the toilet when i was a kid, i used to open the door and get ready to run as soon as i had flushed it. For some reason i thought a gorilla was going to come out of the toilet, roaring at me. As i got older, i realised it wouldnt be able to get out of such a small space.

Jennifer

I used to believe if I didn't leave the bathroom before the toilet was done flushing, a giant wolverine would come out of the toilet and murder me. This started when I was six and ended when I was ten. I have no idea where this came from

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When i being potty-trained, my parents told me that if i missed the toilet, a snake would pop up and bite my weiner off. I believed it for about a year till i finally missed the toilet. I was horrified for a few minutes.

The weiner snake

Up until I was about 7 or 8 I used to believe that when you went to the loo at night after all the family were asleep tigers would rush out of the bowl and try to eat you as soon as you flushed it. Used to drive my dad mad when he'd find a full bowl as he prepared for work.

chris

I used to believe there was a giant slime-covered hand down the toilet which would grab you and pull you down it if you sat there too long.

Foz

I used to believe that if you tripped and fell into a toilet bowl while it flushes, you get sucked into hell. You have any idea how big those things looked when you are 5?

Mudmaniac

when i was about 7 or 8,we used to live in a 4 story house.on the bottom floor was the kitchen,bathroom and celler.i would never use the toilet at night as i thought the noise would wake up the monsters in the celler

jj

When I was little i used to think that there was this big green hand that lived in the toilet bowl. And so every time that i went to the bathroom i would go as fast as i could, flush and book it out of the bathroom!!

me

I was quite certain that there was a killer in the toilet, and that if I just sat on the toilet he would stick his arm through the hole in the bottom of the toilet and stab me. Instead I had to wait until I really had to go, and had to start peeing immediately upon sitting down. The killer wouldn't want to get his arm in pee, after all.

what the?

For some strange reason, when I was about 4 I used to believe that Snuffalupagus lived in the plumbing of public bathrooms. So when I started kindergarten, whenever I had to use the bathroom I would sneak in quietly, open the stall door, and sit down. I thought that if he couldn't hear me, he wouldn't come drag me down the toilet with his trunk. but then came the dreaded flushing time... I would quietly get up, pull my pants up, then open the door for a quick getaway. Id pull down the handle and run like a madwoman till I was outside, where I would hold the door shut for at least 5 minutes. Me and my crazy imagination!

toiletphobia

When i was about 8 i used to believe that if i went to the toilet when it was dark outside, that if i flushed the chain a werewolf would come and attack me. I would either not flush or flush and run for my life.

Thankyou so much to the lovely lady who bought me a story book about werewolves for christmas.

Heather

When I was really small I thought that unless you put ya fingers in ya ears when you flushed, you'd be sucked down b/c the toilet would know you were listening. So I used to flush with my elbow, keep my fingers in my ears and then run as far away from the loo as poss until the flushing stopped so i could wash my hands.

Kitunae The Klot

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 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!

I used to believe that flushing the toilet in the middle of the night would alert any nearby lurking monsters of my location. But, if I couldn't hear it then they couldn't hear it, so I would plug my ears and flush with my elbow.

Kate

I used to believe that if you where in a bathroom/ stall after you flushed it. IT (the killer clown) would come out and eat you. So IF I flushed out the toilet I would RUN out of the bathroom! Sometimes screaming... oops

monster no more

I was scared of E.T, and I thougt that he was going to come up my toilet with an alien gun and zap my butt off....

Anon

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

When i was younger, and still sometimes now.
i thought that monsters would come when you finished going to the toilet, like after you flushed.
so id run,

chelsea