when i was little i found out Elvis Presly died on the toilet i was scared to use the toilet because i thought he would come up and pull me into the toilet.

Jessica

I used to be afraid of the bottle of Vanish toilet cleaner my babysitter kept in her bathroom. I thought it was some sort of magic solution that would make anything Vanish, even me if I accidentally got some on myself.

Anon

My brother, Paul, used to believe that hand dryers in public toilets were actually dragons and hence had a pathological fear of going into the loos in case he got eaten!

Jonana

wen i was little i thought that the toilet was the way to heaven because lots of my fish got flushed down the toilet when they died and one day i fell into the toilet and i thought i was going to die

Anon

I used to think that if you didn't get off of the toilet fast enough once you flushed it, it would eat your butt.

None

At the movie store there used to be a movie with a greeblie monster coming out of the toilet on the cover. I used to believe that if I used the toilet, he would jump out and eat me. It used to scare the crap out of me - literally.

Kel

When I was about 5, I had saw a episode of a show called Rescue 911. On the episode, there was a little boy who was going to use the toilet. The little boy went into the bathroom, lifted up the lid, and saw a snake in the toilet that had slithered out of the piping. I was kind of afraid of finding snakes in the toilet after that. One night after a award thing at school, I went to put my pair of hose I took off into the clothes hamper. I was in a hurry and accidently threw them into the toilet. Not noticing, I ran into the dinning room to eat dinner. Afterwards, I went back to the bathroom, lifted up the lid to the toilet, and saw the pair of hose inside. Thinking that it was a snake, I ran away screaming. After that, I always made sure to look in the toilet twice before I sat down on it...

Ooper

From when I was two till I got to four years old, I had to take all my clothes off before I got on the toilet (even if I had a bow in my hair I would take it off!). I believed that the toilet would suck all the clothes off me and I would never see it again.

me

I used to believe that darth vader was down the toilet.

Nicola

This is terrible...
When I was younger(maybe five-ish) I had heard that Elvis Presley had died on a toilet, so I always thought that if you flushed the toilet, his ghost would come out and get you. I didn't flush the toilet for 2 or 3 years...

I also thought that you got pregnant from kissing.

alena j

when I was little I was scared of the toilet because I thought it would eat me so I always washed my hands before I flushed the loo. And as soon as I flushed the loo I'd run. Even now I wash my hands before I flush the loo!

Mr scared of loos

when i was younger(im 13 just now) i used to think that if you went to the toilet in the dark a massive pig wearing a leather biker jacket, dark glasses, a bandana and a lot of piercings would come up and nibble my bum and to this day i cant go to the toilet in the dark.

emerald

for some odd reason i used to think that cookie monster (from sesame street) lived in the bathroom-all bathrooms. i was terrified of him (i liked no one on the show except the count, who i was "married" to)any way i thought cookie monster was afraid of salt, so i always took salt into the restroom with me. i didnt realize that cookie moster was made-up till one day at a restraunt my mom caught me trying to hide a slat shaker in my pocket before going to the bathroom.

Anon

When i was little, my baby-sitter told me that a scuba-diver would come up out of the pipes and spear me in the butt. even though i never 'really' believed it, it still freaked me out every time i had had to go.

Cassie

There once was a commercial for bathroom air freshener - some kind of circle that you attach next to the toilet. In the commercial, the toilet would get really big (to represent a big, nasty odor, I guess) and it didn't get back to its normal size until someone put the air freshener next to it.

Well, in my first day of school, I had to go the bathroom but I didn't see the air freshener there, so I was afraid to go because I was afraid the toilet would get big and attack me. Unfortunately, I wet my pants and no one understood why I didn't just use the toilet.

Aleks

Until i was about 6, i always was afriad the toilet would over flow when i flushed it. So i never would. Until my parents started to yell at me for it. So eachtime before I flushed it, I would close the lid, stand on it, and hope for the best. At times I would remain standing on the toilet lid for up to 10 minutes, just to make sure.

Anon

I used to think that the toilet water was immediately recycled to other parts of the house after flushing, so until I was 12 or so, I would wash my hands BEFORE I flushed the toilet at home. I also wouldn't get a drink of tap water for at least an hour after, and would let the toilet sit unflushed until after I showered if I had to use the restroom right before bathtime. I never was able to break the habit until I read a book about plumbing. oops.

Liz H.

When I was young I believed that after flushing the toilet a witch would come out and get me. I could stop this from happening by running to my room and standing under the light until the sound stopped. The bright coloured blobs caused by looking directly into the light bulb kept me safe. I am now 30 years old and have recently stopped this habit.

JC

I used to think that every time you flushed the toilet, it would get mad and wonder who did it. I decided that the way to prevent it unleashing its terrible wrath upon me was to run out of the washroom before the toilet was done flushing. You then had to pretend that you never went to the bathroom so it wouldn't suspect you. I think I believed this until I was about nine.

Alison

Well, when I was little my older cousin once told me that if I went poo at night time a man with a nife would reach out from the sewer and stab me in the butt. Now I was deathly afraid of getting stabbed, so I cleverly hid a bucket under the sink. I would poo in the bucket and then drop it in toilet with triumph. Sooo stupid.

Erika