When I was around 7 or 8, I believed that a witch lived in the toilet. I have no idea where I picked this up. But anyways, I believed that this witch couldn't do anything until you flushed. So every time I would flush the toilet I would run like hell to the living room where I would be safe.

Robert B.

Umm anyone ever been in the horror section of Blockbuster and seen the cover of the cheesy horror movie called Ghoulies? Yeah, it wasn't so cheesy when I was a kid, and after I saw that you better believe my butt was hovering over that toilet for months. No way was I going to get attacked by the ghoulie in my toilet.

K.S.

When I was the toilet I used to shake my head sometimes, because there was a ghost who counted the hair, If the ghost finished counting, the person in the toilet would die. So whenever I remember the story I shook my head badly.

Chang Hee Jeong

I'm not sure where they originated, but when I was little I had a couple fears of the toilet. The first one I think came from partially noticing something playing on tv, but I thought the toilet would wait until I sat down and then suck me in and eat me, with the lid kind of making a mouth.

Another time I was convinced that there was a snake living down the toilet drain that would pop out once I was seated and couldn't see it. Sometimes the snake blended in with the hungry toilet idea and became a kind of tongue.

... Needless to say, I made a habit of going up to my mom and casually asking if she'd used the toilet each day, to make sure it wasn't in a hungry mood and that the snake wasn't around.

Emily

I once had a toilet that ALWAYS flooded, so my family got a new one. I always thought it'd still flood, so I'd NEVER flush.

Mr. Potty

When I was about 7 my babysitter told me that if I flushed the toilet at midnight on a full moon, the mustard monster would come out and drag me into the toilet...I believed her until I was probably 10, when I got the chance to flush at midnight on the full moon.

Gina

I went to the circus once and I had to use the restroom, I was 9 years old at the time. The toilet was constantly flushing and I thought I would drop everything important into the toilet and it would be lost forever. I would have nightmares of dropping a picture of my Auntie in the toilet and it would be gone, or a fear of thinking I was going to throw it in the toilet against my will.

Lokke

When i was a child I had to be extremely careful when going to the toilet in small stalls. The reason for this was because I belived the toilet would attac me when I flushed it if I didn't ran out of the stall or kept eye contact with it. Pretty hard to do that with a toilet, you can imagine.

Norwegian

When I was small I used to believe that a monster lived in the toilet and ate my poo. I thought that if I sat on the throne for too long it would bite my bum, so I never closed the door until I was about 10 I would jump off and sprint into the hall.

NuNu

I used to have a fear of nocturnal visits to the toilet after seeing a program about rats coming out of toilets at night. I will go now, but only with the light on and I sing loud to scare any rats away!

Shona

I used to think that there was a monster who lived in the toilet, so I used to wait until the last minute, then rush, because if I spent too long on the toilet it would reach out and get me. (I even now worry about my husband spending so long in the bathroom!) Also, I had to run out of the room once I had flushed the toilet, as that's when it's most likely to get you and suck you in!

jensey

After watching the film "Deep Rising", in which a woman was sucked down the toilet by a mutant (and you can all guess what that looked like)
i could not go to my toilet for the next week without inspecting "doon the pan " for mutant snakes!!

scotty

I used to think that the gremlins would pull me into the potty and drown me and i always get up quickly after using the toilet at 14 years old

~Summer Dawn~

I used to believe that there were lobsters in the toilet and if I didn't look they would come up and pinch me.

Traumatized

I am deathly afraid of spiders, I was afraid that one would be hiding on the dry part of the inside of toilet bowl. I believed it was waiting to get me and if I was on teh toilet too long it would bie my butt. I would frequently look between my legs or get up and investigate if there was a spider in there.

Renee

when my sister was little, there was a period where she would be too scared to go to the loo, cos she thought a rat was going to bite her in her erm, well you know what i mean...ahem. Anyway, it was all because we watched a documentary about rats in London, and there was one bit where it showed how rats sometimes like to crawl in the sewers, up the pipes and out of your toilets into your house to eat food. Straight after the documentary she needed to do a poo, but needless to say she was scared that a rat might be lurking under the lid, swimmimg in the water..

psychologically damaged child (+sister)

i used to think when i was like 5 or 6 that a leprechaun would crawl up into me when i was peeing.

anonymous

Somehow through the manipulations of my older sister, I used to believe that when I was going to the bathroom, one of her classmates would crawl up through the pipes so he could stare at me while I went to the bathroom. She also told me if it wasn't her classmate, sometimes a tiger would do the same, and try to bite me. I was so scared my butt would be bitten off while I was innocently trying to pee.

Kristi

Ok when i was little i watched Jason (the one w/ the hockey mask) and after that i was scared to death when i had to go to sleep so my mom told me that Jason is down the toliet so i believed her .so after i went to the bathroom i would flush and run for my life thinking that Jason would come up the tolit!! (lol)

Jason buddy

I have a similar one to the girl who had a scary door at school. We did too, and one day (on a dare) i opened it and there were lots of pipes and gum. I was disappointed because we thought there were dead people in there too.

Emily