my dad told me that if i didnt wipe myself properley after using the toilet, a big hairy hand would come up through the toilet and get me. I used to flush the toilet while still on it and leave the door open so i could run out..........just in case.

bird

I used to beleive I had to get out the loo and downstairs before it stopped flushing or an evil horrible monster would follow me and drag me down it.
Generally though I was scared of any toilets. Espeacialy the very old public victorian ones.

Beef

I used to believe if you closed the toilet door after using it the toilet would overflow.It must have happened once when I was little and nobody heard the toilet running because I had closed the door!

Anon

My grandma had a big house, and a big 4 car garage that some of the house was on top of, including the bathroom. The pipes went down through the garage, so that when someone flushed the toilet and you were in the garage, you could hear a really loud noise, and it scared the hell out of me every single time I was down there. Whenever I had to be in the garage for something, I left as soon as possible, in case someone went to the toilet!

:)

I watched a special on tv about the most indestructable animals on the planet, and according
to it, rats could go through sewer pipes and pop out your toilet. I got very nervous about going to the tiolet, so I never actually sat on it, I just stood above it, until my mum told me we had a septic tank.

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When I was only 4 years old my Grandparents had a house in the countryside and it had the toilet outside. It was very creepy and the outhouse was full of spiders and i was told that there live ugly little trols and that when you go in there they grab you and take you down the toilet.

Dow

i used to believe that when you went to sleep the time would all of a sudden change to the time that you wake up.

Woody (Scotland)

When I was small, I believed there was a monster at the other end of the toilet pipe, and when you flushed the toilet, it was a signal to him to start sucking, and he would suck up everything in the bowl. Now, this is bad enough, but I also thought that if you didn't close the lid fast enough, he'd suck you in, too!

Polemidas

My friend always checks inside the porter-potty before actually going because she's afraid that somebody will grab her and kidnap her.....

Anon

There are two toilets in my house - one in the bathroom, and one in a little room off from the laundry. My 11 year old brother has only just started using the laundry toilet again after a 6 year fear that there are frogs living in it. In all fairness there is a creek behind our house, so we do occasionally get frogs near our house. To make it more fun, I have a toy frog with a motion sensor, so it croaks if you walk past. I'd put that in the toilet room just to scare him if he walked in.

Phil

when i was little, my Dad told me the story about the Poo-poo monster, a monster that lived in the toilets and would grab you and pull you in whenever you sat down to use the bathroom.i believed this and absolutely refused to use the bathroom.this was serious.my parents thought they would actually have to end up taking me to the doctor because i wouldn't use the bathroom!!but....eventually i did....

Meggy

In my parents bathroom, their toilet was really loud. At least that's how I remember it. And everytime I would flush it, I would run through their bathroom and jump onto their bed, bc spiders would come crawling out of the toilet and a monster would be under their bed.

Joycelyn

i saw ghostbusters 2 when i was 5 or 6 and i used to believe that the pink slime that came out of the bathtub facuet in the movie would come up out of the toilet and get me when i flushed. so i would pull one of the "flush and run" routines whenever i went pee. i still get laughed out by my family. (10 years later)

ray

I used to believe there was a toilet monster and it ate your poo and drank your pee bu if it didn't get enough to eat or drink it will eat you..........

so i fed the toilet monster doritos

Brittany

when i was about 7 i saw this weird programme about snakes and for some reason i associated it with toilets so for years afterwards i used to be petrified of the toilet flush thinking the noise would attract the snakes to come up from inside the toilet and bite my backside or something so id flush the loo and run out the toilet as fast as i could to escape -it wasnt till i was about 9 when i realised how ridiculous i was being so i decided to face my fear and one day i stayed next to the loo as i flushed it - it was really loud and as i didnt see any snakes i thought i must have scared them off with my new sense of bravery *sigh* they were the good old days...

natalie

when i was little and kind of still do have this paranoia that when i go to the bathroom in an aquareum that some type of water creature is going to pop out of the toliet and bit me in my butt. i always make sure i have gone to the the bathroom before i visit an aquareium

Anon

Don't ask me how this belief got started, but I always feared the outhouses at the local campground. I was convinced that this was where lobsters lived and while you sat down to do your business, they would reach up and pinch your butt!

Leary of Lobsters...

My Grandson is afraid to flush the toilet because he thinks that his poop will come alive and turn into Mr. Poo from Southpark.

I am totally serious, he is 8 years old and refuses to flush.

Mr. Poo's Granny

For some reason at the school i went to growing up, we told all these scary stories about things that went on in the bathroom, not just the bloody mary urban myth, but looking back im pretty sure we made up alot on our own. There was so many of these scary stories that all my friends and i became terrified of being in the bathroom... as if you went in a certain stall or something that you would be brutally murdered by some guy that apparently "hid" in there. we all bought every story too. well, all of us sub-conciously decided (on our own) that when you flushed the toilet that was the peak of your vulnerability. (who knows? dont ask.) so i would always wash my hands first and then flush the toilet, and then sprint out of the bathroom. i wasnt the only one either.. some of my friends would have to go with other people and open the stall door before they flushed. who knows how we came up with this!?!?

*flush!!*

When I was younger I was deathly afraid of toilets. Whenever I flushed, I would run like the wind out of the bathroom-- without washing my hands. I would also leave the lights off in the bathroom so that I wouldn't wake up the "toilet monster." And at night, I would turn on one light, as far away from the room as possible, go to the bathroom, flush, then run like crazy, while trying to be completely silent, and rush to my bed. Then I would pretend to be asleep, because the toilet monster doesn't eat sleeping children. I also thought there was a big boss toilet monster, and he had lots of little... minions. And if you peed fast enough, the sides of the toilet would be too slippery for him to climb up. And then when you flushed the sound was him screaming as his got sucked into the drain like a black hole. To this day, if the toilet flushes loudly, I jump!

The Toilet Freak