When I was a kid I always thought that at night if the toilet lid wasn't shut burglars would sneak in to the house through the toilet!

Anon

When I was little I used to have lots of nightmares about toilets overflowing + flooding the world. For some reason I believed this could actually happen, + I decided that the best way to avoid it was to befriend each toilet I used.
I would introduce myself to public toilets, + try to use the same one if I went there again so it wouldn't think I'd gone off with someone else, 'cos that would make it really, really angry. + you don't want to upset someone with the power to flood the world, do you?

Nin

i used to be afraid to flush the toilet because i thought that it would suck me down and i would never see my family again then i would have to live in a giant crap place with other kids who were sucked in the toilet

maria

Until I was about ten or eleven, I was convinced that vampires lived behind the U-bend of our toilet, and that if I spent too long sitting on the loo that they would come up and attack me.

Mat

I used to believe that if you flushed the toilet when you were still on it your internal organs would get sucked out. The most distressing part of it all was not because that would hurt a whole lot but because they'd have to take you to the hospital sitting on the can and turn you upside-down so everything would slide back in!

Anon

When I was 4 or five, I believed that the toilet was a portal to hell. When you flushed, it opened up the gates allowing the devil to come up and get you. I thought the devil was so mad because we dumped all our crap in his house.

yvette

When i was little i shared a room with my older twins sisters.
They used to tell me that there was a creature that lived in the toilet called "murd the turd" who would come from the toilet and kiss me if i didn't go to sleep straight away.
To scare me they used to dangle a brown stocking filled with newspaper, with legs, wobbly eyes and lips from the top bunk when i was sleeping on the bottom.
To prove that he really did exist and did visit me when i only pretended to go to sleep they would put a trail of toilet paper from the toilet to my bed head before bed time. In the morning there would be little brown footprints on the paper and a brown smear on my cheek - brown lipstick thankfully!

amanda

i totally used to beleive that if you flushed the toilet while you were still on it you whould get sucked into some other world where those guys from the rice crispies box lived (snap, crackle,and pop if i remember corectly) and be forced to work for them for the rest of my life. Quite a wild imagination i had.

dee howthehelldotheygetittopop man

I am a chinese(Singaporean) and parents call boy's penis "xiao niao"(birds). I also saw a news article about snakes being found in toilet bowls. So here comes my fear: I did not dare to use the toilet or sit on it at all because snakes live in toilet bowls and they will eat your birds(penis) because i did learn that snakes do eat birds. I dared not enter public toilets and i would make sure i had a stick around me when i was at home in the toilet and also having adults around. It was really scary then but really stupid when i come to think of it now

cheng wee

My big sis once told me that someone found a girl dead on the toilet with an arrow in her behind. After hearing that, i was terrified of going to the bathroom 'cus i thought someone below our house would shoot an arrow up the toilet, shooting my behind.

Meggy

When i was little i used to think that aliens controlled the toilet. If the lid was down, i'd have to enter a long, complicated code into the toilet by punching invisible digits on the lid before I could use the restroom. I messed myself a few times as a result of this long code. However, if I failed to enter the code or entered it incorrectly, the aliens would kill me on the crapper. And that to my young mind would have been the ultimate embarassment--to die on the crapper, just like elvis

Leah

when i was 3-6 i thoughr that if i went to the toilet at night by myselfi would find a dog wearing glass reading the newspaper and he would not let me go to the loo

sugerbabe

When I was little I used to believe that when I went to the bathroom there were monsters hiding in the shower so before I sat down on the toilet I had to open the shower curtains and make sure there was nothing hiding in there. I also believed if I sang while I was on the toilet it would keep the monsters happy and they wouldnt eat me.

Hillary

when i was younger, probly about 6 or 7.. i couldn't find my mom so i ran all around the house trying to find her and i ran straight into my brother. So he asked me what i was doing, he said "i know where she is". And he walked me into my parents bathroom and pointed to the toilet and it was swirling. He said "i flushed her down the toilet". I screemed and sat down by the toilet and cried until mom finally got home.. and then i thought she was a ghoast

-d-ko

Whenever I was in a public restroom, I'd always pull up my pants BEFORE flushing, because I had this freakish fear that when I flushed, the toilet could decide to blow up, and I didn't want people to see my dead body lying around with my pants still down.

Anon

For quite a few years after I was potty-trained, I used to belive that if you were sitting on the toilet when you flushed, it would suck you back in time. So when I watched movies about time machines, I was surprised that they never mentioned anything about a toilet.

delaney

I used to believe a big monster would come out of my toilet when i flushed if i didnt get out before it stopped flushing...so whenever i would flush i would run out of the bathroom really fast

RUUUUUNNNNNNNN

I used to believe that if you didn't wash your hands after going to the bathroom, you couldn't leave the bathroom.

Your worst nightmare

TI used to believe that you had to run upstairs and touch the bed before the toilet stopped flushing, else the whole house would collapse.

Sophie Lyon

When I was very little, my mom cleaned the bathroom once, and said that the floor contained poison, so that I wouldn't step on it. After she said that, I believed that if I ever inhaled in the bathroom, I was poisoned. So everythime I had to pee, I held my breath and did everything as quick as possible (i even kept the light out and hte door open!)

Evita