I used to believe that toliets ate you after you flushed them

Anon

I really think my older brother had it in for me. When I was little he told me that it was OK to pee into the toilet, but if I pooped a monster would come out of the toilet and pull me down into it. I really believed him. When I had to do the "number 2" I couldn't think of anywhere else to go besides behind the couch in the living room. I absolutely feared the toilet monster. My parents would always catch me in the middle of the act, and they worried about me for weeks. It got to the point where I would be behind the couch and my mother would say, "What are you doing?" and I would grunt, "Nnnnnooooothing" One day, I finally told my mom what my brother said...and, well, you can imagine how long he was grounded.

anon

I used to believe I had 25 seconds to use the bathroom before a monster ate my butt. So I would pull down pants & start the count down. From start to flush I had to be done in 25 seconds. I think this led to a life full of constipation.

Juls

I watched an episode of Blue Peter at my Grandparents' house, and on it was a supposed "mummified mermaid."
It scared the heck out of me, and from then on, whenever I used the toilet I would be terrified that one of these demonic-looking mermaids would rise out of the toilet bowl and bite me on the bum.
I had to look down all the time, and be ready to jump up at any given moment, in case one apeared.

It took a long time to get over that.

Blue

I used to believe that there was a vampire living in the S-bend of our toilet. He was only ever awake when I had to get up in the night to go to the loo (of course). He'd hear me come into the bathroom and poke his head up into the bowl. To get rid of him, I weed on him.

Anon

In junior school, I used to believe that I would die if I didn't get out of the door before the towel machine clicked after you'd pulled out a fresh section.

Ray

I believed alligators lived in toilets, and one apparently got hold of my sister.

Anon

this is a belief of my 8 yr old cousin. although her 2 yr old brother doesnt speak much he is absolutley petrified of hand dryers that u find in public loos.his sis believes that its cos he thinks they have in side some kind of deadly gas which makes all your toys shrivel up and go purple. ?!?!

argh!!! a hand dryer!!!!

I always beilieved when I was young that every time you would do your buisness it would go down the pipes and add to a giant monster made of poop and pee. Somtimes my mom would have to take me to the docter cause I had held my poop in for days..... If the toilet would ever flood that ment that the poop monster was big enough to come and get me. But when the plunger was pulled out i thought I was safe because I thought thhey were the only things that could fight it. Occasionally I would drag the dirty plunger around the house just to feel safe.

A frightened child

Well when i was littler my friend used to play this game Mortal Combat. Now me being a little sheltered child i was scared of half the things in that video game. There was this one character (the name escapes me) who would rip the skin off of his/her opponents. Shortly after i witnessed that i watched Spice World. The part where the spy dude comes out from the toilet. Well somehow i combined those two ideas together and came up with the solution that a monster lived in the sewers and if I didn't flush the toilet, wipe my butt, and zip up my pants all before the toilet finished flushing the monster would come and rip the skin off my bum. Lots of rushing when it came to bathroom time.

Ethan

When I was 5, my family moved to Paris, France for a year. In Paris, there are these coin-operated porto-potties on the sidewalk (I don't remember the specifics of where or how many). My mom told me something about having to be finished in under a few minutes, but I interpreted it as that if we didn't use them in under a minute, the toilet would self-clean (hot water and soap would spray out of the walls) and we'd be killed. But that doesn't really make sense now...

Ariel

when i was little, ever since i saw the movie HOOK,
i thought that when I'd sit on the toilet, Captain Hook would poke me in the butt with his hook then drag me down there with him.

Dana

a family member went around telling me that dead people came up through the toilets. So from then on I always thought that the people who died came up through the toilet when they wanted to. Especially when you were on it.

Christine A.W.

I used to think if I sat on the toilet for too long a hairy hand would come out from the hole at the bottom and pull me under.

Samantha

I used to believe that a family of vampires lived down our toilet. Whenever I went to the loo, I'd be feeding them, ie solids and liquids - use your imagination! - and that whenever I flushed the toilet, I had to be off the seat because they might bite my bum, and I was so scared of the loud flushing sound, I used to cover my ears and rush out of the bathroom - after washing my hands of course.

Turd Brain

I used to be convinced that a pike would swim up the toilet and get me. I had to be shown the full workings of the toilet before i would sit down on it. Now I realise how stupid this was.... it's the rats coming up that scares me now.

Anon

I used to believe (I was 6-7) that when you flushed the toilet you had to run out of the bathroom, spin around three times, look at a corner in the room and be very quiet because a tiny demon who lived in the toilet would otherwise get you for disturbing his sleep... I still can remember the expressions on my parents' faces :)

Goblin

When I was little, I overheard my parents talking about getting a new snake for the toilet. Little did I know this was a PART for the toilet!! I was petrified to take too long going to the bathroom, because the snake would come bite me!! Now I'm 19, and just confessed this to my mother. We have had so many laughs over that!!

young and gullible at the time!

If anyone in my family found a spider in the house they would kill it and flush it down the toilet. I was always afriad one would not die then it would crawl up the toilet and into my bum. I wsa scared of the toilet until about age 9.

Anon

up to the age of 12 i was totally n utterly convinced that at night when every1 was asleep n id get up to go to the toilet, sum1 wud attack ,e from behind - but theyd get my bum first! so, being the clever cookie i am, id hold my bum and run for it like there was no tomorrow! or i would back up against the wall and follow that sliding along to the safety of my room!

Vikki