I used to think that spiders lived under the toilet seat, and would crawl out from underneath and bite me in the behind while i was using the bathroom at night for waking them up.

eL

When I was 4 years old my older sister told me that there was a monster in the toilet and, whenever I flushed it the monster would come out to get me... I would flush it and run like there was no tomorrow(I thought that there wouldn't be if the monster got me!). That fear lasted until I was 5.

Dillon Cower

When I was about five or six, I was at the video store with my mother and as she was browsing I accidently came across the horror section and saw the cover of the film - I think it was 'Ghoulies' or something, anyway it has a sharped toothed green gremlin type thing coming out of a toilet. I couldn't get the image out of my head - just from a video cover. For the six or seven years, I had a fear of going to the toilet at night. If it was really urgent I would have to go through a ritual of turning on the light and checking under the toilet seat, and then ensuring that the door was firmly closed when I was finished, so I couldn't be visited by any green monsters in my room. I was terrified. It took significant effort to shake the feeling of fear right up until about the age of fifteen, even after I'd realised it wasn't possible to have monsters in the toilet.

Ben Bellissimo

My sister was terrified after watching television commercials for a cleaning product called "Tidy Bowl". In the commercials, a tiny guy in a boat rowed around the toilet, cleaning the ring from the bowl at the water's edge. She feared that the "Tidy Bowl Man" would appear while she was on the commode.

SailorMan

When I was little my parents would send me out of the room if they were watching a scary movie. Whenever they did this I would always make up any excuse I could to go back out. Well one year I did this and I saw a part of some movie where the guy got his head cut off and then left in the toilet. It scared me so badly that I still sometimes check in the toilet for a head before I go to the bathroom! LOL

afraid

I always had a fear people were inside the toilet stool. I always thought people knew when i took a dump and would talk about me.

Anon

I saw a picture once of a very green python curled in a toilet bowl. I became convinced that snakes curl up in toilet bowls sometimes. To this day, I still can't sit on the toilet in the dark, just in case.

Mike

WHEN I WAS A CHILD I HAD A PHOBIA OF BROWN WOODEN TOILET SEATS, THE BIG LIGHT BROWN UNVARNISHED ONES WERE THE WORST, CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY THE DARK BROWN VARNISHED ONES. PUBLIC CONVENIENCES WERE A NIGHTMARE AS THEY ALL HAD THEM. MY MUM HAD TO COVER THEM UP WITH TOILET PAPER SO THAT I COULD NOT SEE THEM, IF I DID SEE ONE I WOULD GO HYSTERICAL. I AM NOW NEARLY 40 AND STILL HAVE MY PHOBIA, THANKFULLY THESE DAYS THERE ARE NOT SO MANY ABOUT!!

TRACEY JAYNE SMITH

When I was little and we went on trips, every so often we would have to stop at a road side park to use the out-house. My biggest fear was sitting on the toilet. I was scared to death that a spider would come up and bite my butt or worse........ I would catch "Crotch Crickets" to avoid this from happening I would have to straddle the hole. To this day I still do the same thing. Hey, Ya never know!

Tinkle-Wink

When i was young my Dad told me that toilets had teeth and got angry in the night so you should never get up to go to it!

\afsd

i used to go for a pee at night and when i flushed the chain i used to RUN LIKE HELL because there would be a hand reaching up the bowl to drag me in and drown me! dont know where this came from but it lasted till after i was married!!!

Jo

At night, after going to the toilet, a the Devil's disembodied hand would emerge out of the u-bend, using the deafening flush to hide the sound of it's scampering as it chased me up to my room. The hard part came when running up the stairs, since it could leap through the gap in the banister and grab my ankle, rendering me powerless to scream out and/or fight it off. I would only be safe once under the covers of my bed.

G Watkins

i used to believe that everytime i sat on the toilet little gremlins were kidding in the water pipe on the toilet and everytime i sat down they were going to grab my butt and pull me down the drain

Anon

my uncle had a velvet painting of a devil sitting on the toilet in his bathroom, and my cousins used to tell me if i stared at it too long it would come to life,i remember keeping my head down everytime i used that bathroom.

miss13

My step dad once told me of for going to the toilet when he had just cleaned it... he put bleach in, and said my ass would dissolve if i went to the toilet before it had been flushed five-six times... needless to say, i always flush repeatedly before i go to the loo after cleaning it!

Ahahahaha

My father had a poster (I'm sur eyou've all seen it) Of a giant ape climbing out of a toilet. Well my brother beleived that if he sat on the toilet too long an ape would come out and eat you. I beleived that if you fell in the toilet (we had big ones and it was very easy to do this when your 3) you would turn into an ape. Imagine my terror when my other brother who was about 10 tried to flush me down.

moon

When I was a kid I beleived that Mirk McVeedy a fake serial killer made up by my uncle lived in the outhouse and would grab me when i was on the john.

Scared silly

When i was little my mum used to read the newspaper to me. Well one day she read me some article about sewage, and how rat infested it was. I asked what sewage was, and she said it was what ur poops turned into. From then on i was scared to go to toilet cos i thought rats lived in it, and that they would bite my bum while i was going to toilet. My brothers has to sit in the bathroom with me while I pooed cos i was so sacred of something happening to me! POOR them!

Shane

My Grandma's cat died, and, for reasons I have yet to fathom, I thought she had put it down the toilet, and I thought that if I sat on the loo, the cat would come up and scratch my ass. For about a year I would never dare to sit on my Grandma's toilet seat, I'd just kind of hover above it and hope for the best.

lu

When my sister was younger, we lived with our grandparents. Everytime my sister went to sit on the toilet, she was convinced that our grandfather - in blue, agitated, and sperm-like form - was swimming in the toilet, ready to bite her on the bum.

Raven