For some reason, I had convinced myself that monsters lived in our toilets. So whenever I went to the bathroom, I had to be out of the bathroom and a certain distance away (e.g. down the hall, or in another room) before the toilet stopped making the "flushing noise", and if I wasn't the monsters would eat me.
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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 be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- 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
- i used to believe that the basement had monsters in it.Anon
- When I was little my dad told me that monsters jump out from spotlights and I belived it...— Cassie