I beleived that Dracula lived down the toilet and would bite my Bum. First I'd check that he wasn't there then I'd go as quickly as possible and finally I'd take great satisfaction flushing 'cause I knew he couldn't get me then. Going to the Loo was a real adventure!

Izzy

When I was little I used to think I should only go to the loo when I was really ready and not sit on the loo for too long as I thought a witch would come up the toilet and tickle my bum with her long nails if I sat for too long!

Anon

i used to believe that if i fell in the toilet i would turn into a goldfish and someone would flush me down the toilet. so i used to make my mom hold my hand whenver i went...in fear i would fall in

Anon

I used to believe that when you flushed the toilet it would explode if you were near it. Everytime I flushed I ran down the hall screeming and running for my life...i fell once and that is how I learned the truth

Ryan

When I was younger, I had a weird fear of using the toilet after certain people had done so. If relatives were visiting and a boy cousin who teased me was the last to go to the bathroom, even if I thought I'd burst for having to go so bad I'd hold it in. I'd dance around and when my mom questioned, "Why don't you go use the restroom?" the response was, "NO, YOU GO FIRST!" I remember I once begged her to go and use the toilet because I had to go "so badly". I said this as though it were the most logical thing in the world. She once got very angry with me in one of these situations and said, very sarcastically, "Well, you'll just have to go in your pants, then." Imagine her surprise when I looked up at her and said, "Okay. What now?"

I'll never tell... ever

My biggest fear of the toilet when I was younger was that if I ate something good like meat, it would exit my body, enter the toilet, and a crocodile would smell it and snap my bottom right off from underneath me.

Sana

After watching "Jaws" (one of our more gullible babysitters let us do it), my youngest brother was convinced that sharks came up into toilets to eat the people sitting on them. The rest of us encouraged this phobia by humming the theme song every time he went into the bathroom. This eventually backfired on us: my mother made us go in the bathroom with him, b/c he was starting to get constipated.

Mary

At night i thought that there could be a skeleton sitting on the loo. I would stand well back as i gingerly opened the loo door and would cautiously approach the toilet, only turning round at the last minute and sitting down with my eyes screwed up. I would then have to go into the bathroom to wash my hands, avoiding the bath as there could be a skeleton lying in there too. I still hate going to the loo at night at my parents house!

feezer the chiropractor

i used to think that when you went to the toilet(while a storm is on) that i would get zap by lighting up my bottom...

Anon

I have always been arachnaphobic. When I was a little kid, a spider fell down from the swingset I was on and landed on my hand; and I blame that. When I was about 7, I watched a TV show of an afternoon about a geenie who used to stuff up every wish asked of him. On one episode, the show being set in outback Australia, a woman said to a girl about to use an outdoor toilet, "Check the dunny (Aussie slang for toilet) for redbacks (a deadly Aussie spider), under the seat. A fellow only last week died of one that bit him on the bum" or something like that. Ever since, still to this day (at the age of 16) because I live in Australia, I have checked the underside of the toilet seat and the rim of the toilet for spiders before I have sat down. Until recently, I used to jump up in alarm when my leg got itchy.

Pat the Paranoid

I once thought that the toilet's flushing worked by creating a very small black hole. and if I didn't get out of the way fast enough, I would get hit with the Hawking radiation when i flushed the toilet.(I read a lot of scientific american and science news)

Friends think i'm crazy

When I was about 4 or 5 I saw a Tv show where was sucked into the toilet and ended up in a mad scientist's lab. Of course, after that I was terrified of going to the bathroom and the few times that I didn't wet my pants I would go and then run out of the room screaming without even flushing.

Anon

When I was about six or seven, I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet while it flushed it would suck me in. So every time, I would finish doing my business, then stand about three feet away from the toilet. The moment I flushed the toilet, I would run as fast as I could out of the bathroom. I only found out about a year later from my mom who reassured me that it was physically impossible for the toilet to suck me in.

Ruby

When I was a kid and got up in middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I believed that I had to be out of the bathroom before the toilet finished flushing or the room would turn into an elevator and would go down into the earth and trap me there forever.

Staci G

I used to belive that an alien lived in my toilet. And I was a hero. Everytime I had to pee/poo it was my superpowers telling me to fight the aliens. And when I would pee/poo I would be poisoning the aliens (knocking then out) Then flushing the toilet would send the aliens back to the sewer. And the gap in between pees/poos would be them making a new plan of trying to take over the world, and crawl up my toilet. Yes, I was amazingly weird.

Martina May

When I was little, I somehow got it in my head that if you used the bathroom during a thunderstorm, you would be electrocuted by the lightning. I guess that was because my mom always told me not to go near water when there was lightning because I'd get electrocuted, and there was water in the toilet.

Lydia

When I was about 5 or 6 I believed that if you were not out of the bathroom before the toilet was coompletely done flushing, a bomb will go off and you would die.

Corinne

When I was small and just starting to use a proper toilet, I had a terrible fear of falling down it in case I got flushed away!

KtW

I don't know how this happened, but somehow, in my life, Pokemon and toilets combined.

I used to think that when you flushed a toilet, if you didn't get away from it fast enough, a Gyrados would rise from it, and bite you in half.

Maybe this is why I rarely wash my hands at home...

Poketoilet

I wasn't potty trinaed until I was 4. I have reason to believe this is because my older brother (he was 10 at the time) told me that I would fall in the toilet and drown. Well, believeing this, I refused to use the potty. That is up until one day I was doing the pee-pee dance and whining and my father grabbed me up by the armpits and said "GO USE THE POTTY!" very loudly. I'm quite surprised I didn't go right there. I managed to get to the bathroom and use the potty....crying the whole time.

Apparently I was more scared of my father's yell than I was the potty.

Anon