My dad told me that if I didn't flush the toilet after taking a dump, then the turd
would come alive and kill me while I slept.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- When I was little, my mom told me that if I slept with socks on they would eat me alive.— Cindy
- I used to believe that Limabeans would kill you if you didn't eat them.
I flushed them down the toilet.— Lima - I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- The first time I hear about a serial killer, I laughed. You can't kill cereal. It's not alive.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