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

Not long after my parents allowed me to see the movie Gremlins. (I begged for weeks, I was about six or seven...) I made up in my mind that when you flushed the toilet (these were the old style with like, what forty gallons of water in them) and were alone in the bathroom, that it set off an alarm. The evil Gremlins would come up through the toilet and get you. This being absurd because water was a problem for them in the movie. I cannot tell you how many un flushed toilets I left, or how many times I ran really fast from bathrooms!

Manna

I was scared that if I peed too much, the toilet would flood

scarlett

once, when i was 7, i went to an airport with my mom. i had to use the bathroom really bad, but as soon as i got in, it flushed on me. there were tons of people in the bathroom who heard me screaming. my mom explained that they were automatic toilets, but i still thought that they would eat me if they were tired of being pooped on.

One big Loser

When I was smaller, my little brother loved to hold and look at bugs. Me and my other older siblings were scared of them... even my parents. So whenever a bug found its way into our house... we'd just get Taylor, who'd play with them, then flush them down the comode, laughing as they were sucked downward.

Ashamed and embarrased that little Taylor had an advantage over us older folk, we decided to scare him. He was still pretty young with a general fear of the toilet in means of what came out of it if he wasn't careful. So we all said with strait faces that he'd better watch out for the toilet.

Why? Because we said every bug he had flushed down the toilet (Quite many), they're ghosts would shoot out by the hundreds (Like the maggots on Bones), and shoot him sky-high off the toilet to kingdom come, all the while biting him on the butt at the same time.

Instead of fearing the bugs, Taylor improvised and while we were away, stuffed and flushed an infinate amount of Quilted Northern down the loo... probably trying to create a plug of some sort

Jokes on us... we "older folk" had to clean up the flood... and the "ghosts".

Mean Older sister

when I was younger i was very paranoid at being shot. So when I'd go up the stairs into the dark I'd hold a pillow infront of my chest (like that'd help) and I was terrified of sitting on a toilet because I thought a man would shove his arm up the pipe and shoot my bum :P, man was I ever paranoid.

Anon

When I was younger, I would never put my feet on the ground when I was on the toilet because I was afraid that ants would come and put potions on my feet to kill me. I was a disturbed child.

Anon

I used to believe that if i didnt run fast enough out of the bathroom after flushing the toilet that it would explode.I always made it so i was never proven wrong.

Tanya

My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up!

Anon

when i was little, i used to be terrified of the toilet. I was told if you sit there for too long, you get hemmrhoids. I wasnt sure what they were, so i imagined a long arm reaching out of the tolet and grabbing you and sucking you under, and leaving lots of tiny dots on your butt. I also thought that if you werent out of the bathroom by the time the toilet finished flushing something would come out of the filter part and yell at you, and you would never be able to go to the bathroom again.

Yeah, thats me

when i was little i was always terrified that i would fall down the toiliet and never be seen again so i ALWAYS remebered my name and my house and my phone # and my parents names so if i was flushed down the toileit i could shout them out and someone would either come rescue me or tell my parents i died.

Potty Pants

I was DEATHLY afraid of public toilets. I wouldn't use one even if I was about to poop my pants. I kept imagining that, when I went to flush, the toilet would burst and send up a litteral column of water (and also....well, do I really want to go there?)straight up to the ceiling at typhoon speeds, and it would flood the bathroom and I'd drown. (I have a fear of water/drowning in the first place.) Never mind that the bathrooms aren't watertight, never mind that water pressure (strangely, I knew all about water pressure even though I was quite young at the time) in sewage lines would never grow that large, never mind that had never heard about that happening before, never mind that other people used them just fine, I was convinced that public toilets were death traps. If I absolutely had to use one, I would flush and then run like crazy out the bathroom door. Needless to say, I got some strange looks at that.

Looking back, I think it has something to do with the loud flushing, a Flying Rhino Junior High cartoon episode (Where, you guessed it, a toilet explodes exactly like that, minus the...well, stuff), and the ability to hear the rushing water throughout the walls in the piping. I'm 13 and still am very reluctant to use a public toilet.

Daniel Muir

I am in absolute shock that I'm not the only one who beleived a Vampire lived in the toilet! I have absolutely no idea where this beleif came from, but I used to run as fast as I could after I flushed because I thought the Vampire would wake up and get me!

Susy

When I was young I had phobias about everything, but especially when it came to flushing the toilet. I believed that flushing the toilet sent a signal to a witch who knew that you were alone in the bathroom and could come and snatch you up. Well, the bathroom on the first floor of our house was HUGE and it was quite a distance from the toilet to the door. More often that not, I wouldn't flush and just ran out. My brother and I fought over that for years, because he thought I was just gross and didn't understand I was terrified of the bathroom witch!!!

Susan

When I was in second grade my older sister told me she was learning about 'The Black Death' at school. She told me that people would die this horrible death because rats would bite them on their bottoms when they were squatting down 'going to the bathroom'... For YEARS I believed a rats would climb through the pipes and into the toilet and bite my butt!! I could never sit on it for very long without turning to check for rats.

To this day, I have a serious rodent phobia!

amberbamberboo

I used to believe that if I did not get off the toilet soon enough, and hand would come out of the toilet and poke my butthole. I always tried to finish as soon as possible because of this. Or, if I felt like I was taking too long, I would stand up at certain intervals as to confuse "the hand," making it think that it was not all in one sitting.

Kelly

When I was a little girl I wouldn't go to the toilet at night because I was scared there would be someones head in it.

Xoii

when i was little i always went to the shitter with my teddy. one day when i was watching my waste go down the toilet i accidentaly dropped teddy into the bowl. i screamed as i watched teddy go round and round and finally disappear. i was so afriaid that next time i flushed id fall too and be sucked down the hole that i held my bodily functions for a week. lets just sat there were a few "accident" and by few i mean alot. my mom though i had memory loss and forgot toilet training.

Alex Pow

When i was about 7 i first went on plane and i got told to watch out for the toilets because they are loud and they suck you in if you stand to close to then so now 7 years later i still press the button and run as fast as i can and shut the door behind me just incase : )

Egbert

I went to the restroom after watching a show about the holocaust, and I was terrified because I thought Hilter's dead hand would reach up and grab me and pull me down into the bowl...

Jana