I was always kind of afraid to use public bathrooms because i thought that if anybody else was in there and they heard me they would go back to there group of friends and talk about the noises they heard

Anon

You know the doors inside restrooms that either aren't labeled or say "Authorized Personnel Only"? Well, I used to think that if I opened that door, a gorilla would be hiding behind the door, and it would jump out and scare me. Why a gorilla of all things, I will never know. I guess it was just my crazy imagination.

TxTetley

After seeing the film Batman i was sure that if you flushed the toilet and didn't leave the room at full pace the penguin would pop up (riding a giant rubber duck) and eat your face.

Anon

When I was younger, I believed that every time I flushed the toilet, dinosaurs would come out of the wall and eat me. It never happened of course, but the possibility freaked me out nevertheless.

Andrew

When I was younger I used to beleive that a fat lady lived in my friends bath, needless to say I thought she could go up the toilet and drag me in or my friend, unfortunately, I thought that every time she didn't answer the phone, she had been kidnapped by the lady. That left a lot of strange answering messages.

a very paranoid bath hater.

When I was a kid, my parents used to warn my sisters and I not to sit for too long on the toilet or you would grow a cord out of your bum that would attach to the toilet and you would be stuck there forever... the thought still scares me..

sore butt

Since the toilet was connected to the pipes that went out to the ocean (eventually) i thought that the big mud crabs or lobsters might crawl up the pipe and get into our toilet, so everytime i went to the toilet i used to check for crabs or lobsters, to make sure they wouldn't bite my bottom, and i peed as quietly as i could so i wouldn't disturb them.

Sara

For about a year when I was little, I had to reach my hand in the toilet (not the water, just inside the bowl) to feel and make sure there wasn't an invisible monster in it before I could use it.

Carrie

When I was young, my family lived in the U.K. During that time, I was convinced that the Loch Ness Monster had the ability to swim up through our toilet and attack me while I was on the loo. Needless to say, I felt a great deal of angst whenever I had to use the restroom.

Stephanie

I used to believe that there was a genie living down our toilet, and that whenever he wanted 'food' he wished for it and one of the people in our house would have to go and provide it. It was very scary!

Anon

i used to beleive that george washington was hiding in my toilett and he would bite me if i wasn't carefull...

needless to say that bathrooms were a scary place for some time...

Anon

when i was about 5 i had a very strange dream about toilets. i dreamed that there was this kind of toilet monster that was invisible in the water and smelled strongly of pertrol. he would jump out of the toilet as you sat down and then you could see him, and he looked like a man with hamburger meat stuck all over him.

for 4 years i was always afraid of using the toilet in a public place when no one else was in the restroom. if there were more people there would therefore be more witnesses to my tragic demise and he would be found out.

kay

I used to believe that if you flushed the toilet without feeding it, it would flood your house and the pipes would explode. So I used to get a LOONNNG piece of toilet paper, stand back, and let the toilet slowly eat it up. XD

Wugnut

I thought there was a beaver living in the toilet that would bite me if I wasn't ever vigilant.

Camille

I have no clue why, but when I was very little I used to believe that if the toilet stoped flushing before I got out of the bathroom that it would explode and kill me. Don't worry folks, I make sure to stop to wash my hands now ^_^

Hollychick

When I was young I would always look between my legs into the toilet while I went pottie. I figured if I saw the lobsters as they were coming out I would make a break for it and I might get out before they pinched my bum.

Tabitha

i used to believe that 2 skeletons with pick axes and those hardhats with lights on them, would tunnel under ground towards me, and they would reach me if i stayed on the toilet too long at night

anastacia beeverhousen

When i started school i went to the toilet and the i flushed it and it was really loud and i thought it was a dinosarer roaring so i never flush the toilet till i was in the 5th grade

Anon

I used to believe that when i flushed the toilet, freddy kruger would come out and try to grab me. hence i would always flush the toilet and then race out of the bathroom at full tilt.

no longer afaid of toilets

I used to be scared ****less (excuse the pun) of the toilet as, for a few weeks, when I flushed it the water would rise abnormally to the very top of the loo and stop there just before flooding. I thought it was doing it only to me as it was evil or something and to nobody else. It turned out tree roots had grown into the sewer pipes...

Glyn