bathrooms

When i was about 8 i watched Jaws! i was terrified and hid behind my mum and a giant cushion! After i had a bath and was petrified to go in, if i did a great white shark would come out of the plug hole and eat me whole with my legs first!!! i finally watched the film when i was 16 and i'm still afraid of sharks!!! X

Jaw Breaker

I USED TO BELIEVE THAT IF I WANKED IN THE SHOWER A MEMBER OF MY FAMILY COULD GET PREGNANT.

Anon

I thought that if I put my hand on the drain while the bathtub was draining my fingers would get stuck in there. I assumed that to get me loose, firemen would have to come to my house and chop off my hand. I'm not quite sure why I thought firemmen.

I_Am_The_Walrus

I used to beleive that bidets were something you washed your feet in I still think it is actually practical to do.

kronan

When I was younger I was scared to go to the bathroom because I believed that a wolf lived inside my mother's hamper and that if he heard me walk by, he would sprint towards me and eat me. To this day, unfortunately, I'm still deathly afraid of wolves.

Jessica

I used to think that the curved pipe under the sink led directly back up to the faucet, so I wouldn't use water to brush my teeth.

Jules

i use to believe that the bathroom was where shoes and pants lived!!!! it was scary!!!!

Anon

My daughter-in-law believed that you couldn't take a bath or shower if the electricity was out.
It turned out that she grew up in a house that had well water and an electric pump that got the water into the house. So if there was a power outage, of course there was no water.
But even after she married my son, she still believed this. He had to explain that not every home uses well water, so showering was still an option even during a power outage.

Paula

This is not a toilet beleif, but similar. I used to refuse to let the bathwater out of the tub because I was conviced that the drain was a tube that ran straight down and ended in a room and the water poured out on a lion's head and woke him up. I thought one day he would stop roaring at me and just break through the bottom of the tub and eat me.

Anon

I thought the gurle of the drain in the bathtub was a lion roaring. I assumed there was a lion in the basement that drank my bath water, and when the last of the water went down the drain, he roared.

Joshua

When I stayed over at my grandparents' house and they gave me a bath, they said that if you stayed too long in the bath you would become scrunched and small like a raisin and fall down the drain. It seemed reasonable because if you stay in water too long, your fingers do start to look raisin-like.

Keren (in memory of my Granfather, Carmi)

I used to believe that a werewolf lived down the plughole of the bath! When I used to go to the toilet- I had to peer down the plughole to check it wasn't going to come up and bite me while I relieved myself. It was ok whilst using the bathtub though, as the plug blocked the werewolf down so it couldn't eat me

Vicky

When I was little, I believed that any water that went down the drain without any soap in it, was recycled and came back through the faucet.

Donna

I used to believe that when the water was going out of the bath and it made that awful noise that the room was goin got be sucked in if you didnt run upstairs and touch your bed be for the noise stopped!

Mr.Boo

I thought that if i took out the plug when in the bath i would be sucked down it! i also thought that spiders would come up it and eat me!

Lucy