i used to believe that when i was little that monsters lived in my basement and i couldn't go down there alone and whenever you went to the bathroom and flushed the toilet the monsters came up through the closet so i would flush then run.
A childhood belief about basements

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- There ARE monsters under the bed but they won't eat you so long as you don"t get out of bed before 7am.— Sarah
- When I was little my dad told me that monsters jump out from spotlights and I belived it...— Cassie