When i was about 6 or 7, my dad told me in Austrailia massive spiders lived under the toilet seat and would bite you when you sat down. I was afraid to go to the toilet for ages. Even though i don't live in Austrailia!! lol..

the freeky one

a couple of years ago i used to believe that there were two little men who lived in your toilet and they would poke you with sticks when you went to the toilet if they didn't like you.

Jodie.h

...that the Wicked Witch of the West (saw The Wizard of Oz too young, apparently) would come swirling out of the toilet to grab me when I flushed. I still have scars on my knees from falling all over myself, madly exiting whatever building I was in at the time, school included =P

Anon

When I was in the first or second grade a guy living with us died in our downstairs bathroom.I never really used that bathroom after that because I was afraid he haunted the toilet.I was afraid his ghost's hand would reach up and grab my bum.Even though I'm in college now,I'm still afraid to use that bathroom late at night.

Ally

when i was about 5 i had this scary dream about a devil popping up from the toilet and pulling me into his dungeon. i didn't use the toilet for days, and would go to the bathroom in the tub or outside...i was so scared of the devil! my mum soon noticed, and told me it couldn't happen.

alea

When I was young I thought a clown was in the toilet so i was continued to look between my legs for it so I'd catch it before it bit my butt.

Clown

When I was around 8 or so, I remember hearing on the radio how someone's boa constrictor escaped into the sewer system and came up in someone's toilet. I am sure that I must've somehow heard part of that wrong, because the logistics seem impossible to me now, but for that whole year I still remember going to the toilet as fast as I could, flushing and slamming the lid down to make sure that if the snake appeared in our toilet, he wouldn't attack me. I still wonder about that and I still always put the lid down.

Tammy

When i was about 5 to 6 i believed that there was an eye down the plug hole of the bath and that it would eat you!

Anon

When I was five years old, I had just saw the movie "Look Who's Talking." Oh boy... I had a nightmare that night, in which I woke up, walked past the bathroom to go watch cartoons, and then the toilet said the movie toilet's phrase, "I want your pee-pee!" in a scary voice. I tried to run to my parent's room, but I was held in place. Then I woke up before the toilet sucked me in. For about three years, I would always run past our bathroom.

Tommy

I used to believe that Jabba the Hut (Return of the Jedi) lived in the toilet. I became so terrified that his long tongue would like my patookus that I resorted to using the bathroom in the creek in our back yard - that is, until my mom caught me!

allegra

my little bro used to believe that whenever he took a dump a Brittish Royal Gaurd would jump out of the toilet and beat him. sometimes if you listen you would believe that he was getting beaten too.

stephen webb

once i told my sister that there was a toilet monster and that when she goes to the bathroom it drinks the pee and eats the poop but if you stayed too long it would come out and eat you.so now when she goes to the bathroom she runs out screaming after she flushes.

crusader

My grandfather was fastidious about keeping the toilet seat down (yeah, I know...odd for a guy...) and would give us a hard time if we left the lid up. He said it was 'cause rats come up out of the toilet and get into the house. I'm still not sure about that one? Anyone wannna confirm that??? I kept the lid down from then on, however.

Shelley

When i was younger, i used to believe that there was snakes in the toilet that slithered through the pipes and would bite your butt when u were sitting on it!!! I would always make sure that i sat at the very edge of the toilet seat and would be so scared!!! When i was all done "doing what i had to do" i would stand as close to the toilet paper role as possible until i flushed!!!

Myself

When i was younger i would sometimes watch the show " Are you afraid of the dark?". I vividly remembered an episode where a monster come's out of the toilet. From then on i would run out if the bathroom after i flushed the toilet regadless of where i was.

Erin~

i used to think that a giant snake would come out of the toilet when i flushed it. so for awhile i didn't flush the toilet until my mom told me that i had to. so i would flush it and then run out really quickly trying to escape to giant snake.

jessica

When I was about 10 I learned about sharks, and they terrified me. To this day I have trouble swimming in deep water (including fresh water - hey, you never know!).
But when I was little I thought all water was kept inside the world, in like a big resevoir, and I grew convinced that a shark could come up my toilet and bite my bum. I became very speedy in using the loo, and to this day I don't linger there. For some reason I wasnt' afraid of any other creature getting up the toilet pipes, only sharks.

Mia

When I was a little girl I always was afraid of people watching me. I was so afraid of going to the bathroom because I believed that the people in the sewer would swim up into the toilet and see me pooping/peeing on them.

Jessica A.

My brothers told me that if you flushed the toilet when you were still sitting on it that it would suck you into the pipes and you would come out in the ocean. They would come into the bathroom and try to flush it before I could stand up. I started to pee in the bushes outside instead.

coutnry hick

i believed the tidy bowl man was real and if you did not keep the tiolet clean he would bite your naked bum one day.

Anon