I used to have nightmares after I was first potty trained that there was a monster in the toilet that if I went in there at night and opened the seat, it would pop out and get me. So whenever I had to go to the bathroom during the night, I'd stand in the door of it and be too scared to move so I'd either wake my parents (which didn't go over well) or go back to bed and wet the bed.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- i used to be scared of under my bed and thought that my cat became a monster only at night.— sumayah
- I thought the boogey monster was a monster that ate boogers at night in front of youAnon
- I used to belive that if you didn't hold onto hte toilet seat you would fall in.— silly
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan