when I was 4 or 5 my sister told me that when you flush the toilet the gurgling noise was the boogeyman getting mad at you and was gonna eat you if you didnt get out before it stopped flushing he would get you. she ended up scaring herself (and me) and for around a year my parents would see us wash our hands, flush the toilet, and run like hell out of the bathroom
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- 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 everything you flushed down the toilet ended up in "Hell".— Abi
- I used to think if you didnt get up before flushing the toilet would eat you...Anon
- i used to belive that when you flush a toilet on an aeroplane you get sucked down— milly
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- i used to think when it started raining it was god flushing the toilet— edel