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

i was scared of flushing the toilet when i was young because i thought water would shoot out and that i'd drown in the water

Anon

I still belive that the toilet monster is real, and so I wash my hands before i go, then I flush and run with my ass hanging put then pull my pants up in my room.

BIGHEADsmallvoice

I used to believe that if I went to our outside loo alone the Daleks would get me. My big brother would wait until I was mid pee then run off.

Rachel

I used to have a huge fear of the public toilets you see dotted around on the pavement in the UK, the electronic ones where you put a 10p coin in when you want to use it and the door opens for you. It scared me witless when my mum told me that the floor tipped up to get rid of your wee after you left. I've only ever used one once since.

Chris

I used to believe that crocodiles lived in the toilet and would bite my butt when I had to go to the loo.

Oz

When I was about six I heard that there were these spiders called black widows that hid under the loo seat who could bite you and you'd die in seconds! I used to check under the toilet seat for years after that.

I never realized blck widows only live in Austrailia!

TomARSE

When I was younger, my mother used to tell me that if you used the public rest stops (like the ones on the interstate highways) there would be people in the stall next to you and they would take a razor blade and slash your ankles while you were on the toilet. I am 24 now and I still to not use the bathrooms at rest stops when I am traveling. Thanks, Mom!

Nicole

I used to be afraid to go to the bathroom at night, because I was absolutely convinced that there was a man hiding behind the toilet with a gun who would shoot me if I went at night. My mother used to think that there was a man who lived in the toilet who would reach up and grab you at night. Surprisingly, we're both almost normal now.

Muffy

My older brother told me there were special animals that lived under outhouses. According to him, these animals lived mostly on toilet paper but occasionally they leaped up from the darkness and bit a child's behind.
I'm 42 now and to this day, outhouses make me a bit nervous.

Abby

My daughter was about 3 when I put a blue toilet freshener in the back, thus causing blue water..Well she thought that it was ocean water and sharks lived in it.Therefore she peed on my kitchen floor several times. I can not tell you how many flushes it took to get the clear water back...Never used them again.

Jen

When I was little I was quite afraid of bees. I still haven't actually been stung by one until this day, but I was afraid of a lot of things as a kid and bees was one of them. Somehow when I was around six years old I got it into my head one day that a swarm of bees actually lived in the toilet, and if I flushed the toilet all the pee would flood their hive and make them angry. For weeks after I imagined up this idea, I refused to flush the toilet and wouldn't tell anyone why. When I finally worked up the courage to start flushing again, I would first close the lid of the toilet, wash my hands and open the door wide so I would be ready to make a mad dash out of there when I finally did flush it. That routine went on for months.

Spark

When I was little, around 10, I used to think that portable toilets were scary. Because one day I was at one of my little brothers baseball games and I had to go to the bathroom. So on my way to the potty, this boy around 16 or 17 came over and told me that there were snakes that lived in the porta john. He also told me that the snakes would come out and bite you in the butt when you went to pee. So every time after that till I was about 13 or 14 I would check for snakes every time I went to go to the potty in a porta john.

lauren

i use to believe that there was a glowing witch that would guard the potty in the bathroom at night and she would get me if i had to go to the bathroom. so to this day i do not go to the bathroom at night.

steven

I used to be scared of the ocean. This was because there were lobsters and jellyfish and seaweed. (all of those were way far out into the ocean) One day, I heard some one talking about how toilet water comes from the ocean. From that point up unil about 2 years ago, I was scared to use the toliet(especially when pooping) because I thought that a lobster would come up and pinch my butt off. Public bathrooms were worse! Since those toilets don't have lids, I couldn't stop the lobsters! Advise to people who still believe that: don't

:) peanut

when i was 5 or 6 my sister told me that if i stayed on the toilet to long a HUGE snake would come out of that little hole thing and eat me.when i took a poo, i timed myself for five minutes on one of those egg timers.i think my mom thought i was a little stupid for doing that.

theres gullible written on the ceiling.where?

when i was a kid i thought a dwarf hiding in the toilet bowl was going to stab me in the bum with a gigantic sword; i couldn't figure out how he got the big sword down there. and yes, i was one of those flush and run people.

imagine how thrilled i was when we moved to a country house with no plumbing and an OUTHOUSE where the little bugger could actually fit, sword and all.

Anon

When i was like 4, i some how find a lot of spiders in my bathroom so i would kill them with toliet paper and flush it down the toliet. Then afterwards i always wondered if the spiders would come back and bite your butt when your doing your job....

Jessica Garza

After watching the Little Mermaid, i just knew that Ursula (the scary evil octopus) lived in our house. I knew that everytime i flushed the toilet one of her arms would come out to try and catch me. Every time i flushed the toilet i was terrified that she would catch me and take me away.
Even when i flush the toilet now, i'm always cautious that a long slimy tenticle isn't following me.

anon

When I was very little, about three or four, I decided that every time you flushed the toilet, an evil witch came out. The only way you could hide from her was to get out of the bathroom before the toilet finished flushing.( I washed my hands in the kitchen sink)One time, I ran out and slammed the door behind me so hard, it fell apart. I couldn't understand why my parents where so upset, when instead they should be lookink for the witch, whom I was sure had escaped

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