I saw "Beetlejuice" for the first time when I was 4. I remember this one part where Beetlejuice comes out of the bathroom as this snake thing. I always assumed it was from the toilet, so for the longest time I couldn't go to the bathroom without freaking out about Beetlejuice being in my toilet.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a snake would come up and bite me.— Cheesemonkey
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- My mum used to tell me that you couldn't drink water out of the tap from the bathroom as it was poisonous.Anon