After seeing the movie Jaws, I used to think a shark might come out of the toliet while I was sitting on it and eat me. There was never a scene in the movie in which this happened, but the movie scared me and my imagination was wild!

Sue

I used to believe that if you sat on the toilet for too long the poo you just did tried to get back inside you. So as soon as the poo dropped from my bottom I would jump off the toilet and flush straight away.

Paul Atholl Jonathon Bell

You know how toilets always continue the flushing noise for around 10 secs after you flush it? I used to believe that if I didn't leave the bathroom before the toilet was done flushing, that I would grow a penis and turn into a boy.

Rachel

For some reason when I was young I used to think that I would have to flush before the toilet paper got completly wet, and I had to book it out of the bathroom before it was done flushing.

So, if I was at the movies or at a restaurant I would almost run into people to get out as fast as I could.

Rob

I used to believe that a monster lived in our plumbing, under the bathroom, and ate everything that went down the drains. Sometimes the plumbing would make a sound that sounded like a burp when the bathtub was draining, and I thought it was the monster burping. I thought that if I flushed the toilet when I was still on it, it would reach through the drain and grab me. Even when I was old enough to know better, I still flushed the toilet with my foot from across the room (and then darted out the door) well into adolescence.

Ceit

When I was really little I used to think if you had something in your mouth while you were using the toilet that it would get sucked down (with your business) once you flushed the toilet.

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i used to think that when you went to the bathroom after you flushed it a creature would come up from the toilet and eat you "waste" so i would run out of the bathroom the second i flused in fear of beinf eaten.

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When i was in grade four me and my friends believed that there was a man stuck in the toilet because when ever you would flush the toilet the "swoosh" sounds in the girls toilet kind of sounded like "helpoosh meeee"

So instead of using the bathroom we would have to hold it

story:But once my friend really needed to go so she ran into the boys bathroom!!!!

Anon

When I was very young we had a vacation cabin in the middle of nowhere. No electricity, no running water, and an awfully smelly outhouse. My mother once told me not to sit too long or I might get hemmorhoids. For many years after I thought hemmorhoids were little animals that would jump out of the "hole" and bite my behind!

Patri

I used to flush the toilet and jump up and run out and slam the doot because my Dad told me that the "flusher" was the toilet monsters doorbell.

Kristen

When i was about 5 my cousins told me that a monster would come up the toilet and rip off my arse! I was convinced this was true! I was so scared for the nest 4 weeks i had to have my Mum come in with me! But what would i do at school?! I went in with the headteacher! But she left me in there! I was screaming for ages until she came back.......which was much later on!

Biatch

Gary

As a child I use to believe that if you sat on the toilet that a hand would reach up and grab you, it would then take you down to the sewer and rape you. I was mortified. I use to squat over the toilet to use the bathroom until I was 8. I think I got this from a horror film. I sure scared me.

H.A.P

When i was little i used to belive that when you flushed a toliet in a public place that a vampire would come out and kidnap you and take you back with him into the toilet. i belive that till i was about 8.

Sammie

My mom once told me a story about how in florida alligators got get into the sewers and stuff. So for years I was afraid to sit on the toliet and I would constantly be looking down afraid that one would bite my butt!

Afraid of alligators in Ohio

When I was younger I used to believe that little crabs lived in the toilet, so every time I went to the bathroom I talked to them and asked them to please not pinch me!

Rachel

For some reason I got the idea that a lobster lived in the toilet and would pinch my butt with its sharp giant claws. I was afraid to sit on the toilet and would try to be as fast as I could when going to the bathroom. I must have been about 6 or 7 at this time.

The really strange thing is that I had very little exposure to seafood growing up, so I have no idea where this belief came from. I see I'm not the only one who thought something scary lived down there, though...

kitten13

I believed there's an another world in sewers. One time I've dropped a coin into the bowl and I've flushed it. Next week I was terribly afraid because I thought some guys from "toiletworld" will come at night an draw me into the toilet. How stupid

blm

for some reason, when i was 3 or 4 i thought that if i didnt get out of the bathroom before the toilet filled back up with water it would explode. that also lead to the time i ran in on my cousin because he was taking too long...

ToiletGoBoom

I used to think that when I flushed the toilet, I'd get sucked into it, so I'd run out of the bathroom...or I just wouldn't flush.

Eventually, I stopped believing that I'd get sucked in, so I'd have to watch the toilet flush before leaving the bathroom (I have fears of evil things being behind me...I guess I consider the noise of the toilet flushing to be evil...). Sadly, now I still do that.

Chibs

When I was three, my mom would have to wipe my butt because I couldn't reach. One day, when my mom went to work, and my dad was asleep, I had to go poop really bad, so I just decided to go on my own. As I sat on the toilet, I felt a little bump hitting my butt. I looked down and wondered where it was coming from. It hit me again. I started thinking (really ranodmly), and I thought that little mini people were shooting arrows at my butt. I never found out what that hitting was... but I betcha it was just a bug. Omg! That is still really gross, but whatever!!

Lily Hunter