My cousin told me that there was a creature in outhouses (we did a lot of camping) called the toilet Dracula that had a head like Dracula and the body of a snake. It would crawl up the hole in the toilet and bite you when you sat on it. I was horryfied for years.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a snake would come up and bite me.— Cheesemonkey
- I used to think Dracula was from Pennsylvania.Anon
- I was always afraid of dracula so i would put tons of blankets over my neck— Lissa
- For the longest time I used to believe that "Dracula" was a gigantic gorilla with fangs, not unlike King Kong.— Mark Cidade
- i used to believe that scoripons could crawl up your toilet and pull you in.
No thanks to my big brother!— Alexandra - I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon